Quotes from John Herman Randall

To use history is the only alternative to remaining its slave. To escape a continuing bondage to the past, we must understand the past. Only thus can we make it our servant and instrument, and not leave it our master.

Nothing seems so completely outmoded as the modernities of yesterday.

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.