If he is our future, than history will not repeat itself, because we will all be dead.

It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. And the reply, absurd as it doubtless seems to most men now living, may be an obvious commonplace to their descendants

This merger is all about shaping our future.

We make up most of our history around here, ... Codger.

a terrific part of our organization's history, and presumably, a part of its future.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.