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A nation that forgets its past has no future.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

Winston Churchill
Past, Forget, Forget It
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If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

Winston Churchill
Past, Political, Trying

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

Winston Churchill
Past, Forgotten, Nations

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

Winston Churchill
Past, Judgment, Lost

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

Winston Churchill
Future, Past, Historical
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

Winston Churchill
Passion, Past, Echoes
Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

Winston Churchill
Past, Destiny, Preparation
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.325, Da Capo Press

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.

Winston Churchill
Revenge, Blessed, Past
Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

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

Winston Churchill
Hope, Past, Giving
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.549, Da Capo Press

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Winston Churchill
Art, Writing, Past
Speech in House of Commons, 23 Jan. 1948

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

Winston Churchill
Past, World, Habit

May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

Winston Churchill
War, Fall, Past
Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

Winston Churchill
Future, Past, Land
Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.

Winston Churchill
Future, Past, Two
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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