We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

Remembering the past of the peoples helps to project the future. We cannot forget the history of people.

Choosing a past helps us to construct a future.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

You row forward looking back, and telling this history is part of helping people navigate toward the future. We need a litany, a rosary, a sutra, a mantra, a war chant of our victories. The past is set in daylight, and it can become a torch we can carry into the night that is the future.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

What we celebrate today is not a victory of party or of individuals. What we celebrate is a beginning as well as an end; a change as well as a restoration. A beginning to end poverty, and misery; a beginning to end ignorance and hopelessness; and a beginning to restore all that is good, beautiful and sublime in our lives as one people under God.

Indeed a Golden Jubilee is a day for looking to the past. But it is above all an occasion for renewing our commitment in the future, our commitment to facing up to the realities of joy and sorrow in our lives.

We must remember who they are and what they did. Because the future grows out of the past, we must stay alert.

Memories remake the past, dreams remake the future.

The future belongs to those who can generate hope from the past rather than despair.