Carving Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the…

— Gustav Stresemann

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

— Howard Zinn

The best prophet of the future is the past.

— Lord Byron

Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.

— Heather Cox Richardson

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

— Helen Dunmore

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends....

— Max Beerbohm

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

— Herman Melville

“A sense of the past is far more basic to the maintenance of freedom than hope for the future. The former is concrete and…

— Robert A. Nisbet

The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.

— Alaya Dawn Johnson

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

— Elbert Hubbard