Wendell Willkie Quotes

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick.

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

We can't let the past be forgotten.

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?

Never, ever forget history.

When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

I love museums but I don't want to live in one.

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

Museums, I love museums.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

We cannot afford to neglect some recognition of our past, even though we gaze into the future.

All states need to hallow themselves with the dignity of the past.

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.