History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

(History is) not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.