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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Lord Acton
Past, History, Obstacles
Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.4, VM eBooks

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

Lord Acton
Past, Doe

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Lord Acton
Past, Rivers, Gold
Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.1, VM eBooks

The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.

Lord Acton
Past, Light, Stories
John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

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