Congress Quote by Jerry Costello

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

— Haile Selassie

We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do…

— Ban Ki-moon

“History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to prepare ourselves…

— Henning Mankell

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance,…

— Abraham Lincoln

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

— John McCain

“Without a good understanding of history how can we make informed and therefore good and sensible decisions about current issues? The future then can…

— Keith Tonkin

“History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded…

— Thomas Merton

Let us not only remember the past and its required sacrifice, let us also remember that we are responsible to build a legacy for…

— Thomas S. Monson

Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed…

— Scott Walker

The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit.

— David Eisenhower