To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.
That’s behind us. Let’s don’t worry about those little fits of history.
We've been through so much together, and most of it was your fault.
Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!
History is another country and might be full of fascinating incidents and places to go visit - but as a destination for emigration, it has some problems!
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
The problem in any constitutional change is the great care put to solve the problems of the past instead of grasping those of the future.
The future will be no primrose path. It will have its own problems. Some will be the secular problems of the past, giant flowers of evil blossoming at last to their own destruction. Others will be wholly new.
Washington has a way of dealing with yesterday's issues.
