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.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

The veils of the future are lifted one by one, and mortals must act from day to day.