“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”

“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”

“Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.”

“History has to be rewritten in every generation, because although the past does not change, the present does; each generation asks new questions of the past and finds new areas of sympathy as it re-lives different aspects of the experiences of its predecessors.”

“History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. ”

“It is very foolish to ignore the past. The man who does ignore it, and assumes that our problems are quite new, and that therefore the past has nothing at all to teach us, is a man who is not only grossly ignorant of the Scriptures, he is equally ignorant of some of the greatest lessons even in secular history.”