The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.