Regarding history "The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward".

Oscar Wilde: "The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it".

John Fitzgerald Kennedy; "We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent no omniscient- that we are only six percent of the world population; that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind; that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity; and therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem"

Arthur M Schlesinger Jr: "History is never a closed book or final verdict. It is forever in the making. Let historians never forsake the quest for knowledge in the interest of an ideology, a race, a nation. Becaus in the end, a nations history must be both the guide and the domain not so much of it's historians as it's citizens."