We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. – Jose Ortega y Gasset
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by Gods Will, united in spirit and in aim. – Queen Elizabeth II