I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I know no way of judging the future but by the past.

Jefferson said he loved the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. I think that's really a relevant quote today, because we have been thinking more and more about what the future will bring to Monticello.

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

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past