Present Quotes

There are two systems, the past and the future. The present is only a painful transition. Which must triumph? The future, will it not? Yes indeed, the future! That is, intelligence, industry, and peace. The past was brute force, privilege, and ignorance. Each of our victories was a triumph for the ideas of the Revolution. Victories will be won, one of these days, without cannon, and without bayonets.

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I should be far more concerned about the general attitude of a candidate toward present day problems and his own inward desire to get practical needs attended to in a practical way.

This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights-among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty.

I do not regard the Communists as any present or future threat to our country. In fact, I look upon Russia as our strongest ally in the years to come.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present.

Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war.

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.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

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

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

There's no other time but the present. Anything else is a waste of time.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.