We cannot undo the past, but we are bound to pass it in review in order to draw from it such lessons as may be applicable to the future.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 16 April 1936

I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 4 December 1952

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