Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

We cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves.... The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

History passes the final judgment.

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

It's up to history to judge.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

History will treat me right.

The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.

If you do something wrong, it's going to be all over the place. Not only does that go for me, but anyone in here. You just really have to be aware of it.

I don’t want you to be a laughing stock … a circus where we just throw people out the minute they make a tough decision. Don’t do this. Don’t do this.

Somewhere, sometime, somehow, some way these people will have to answer for their acts.

We can not escape history.

Everything is a circle. We are each responsible for our own actions. It will come back.