Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership For an Uncertain Time (2005), p. 327
“The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.”
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Letter to John Taylor (28 May 1816) ME 15:23 http://www.britannica.com/presidents/article-9116907
1810s
Context: We may say with truth and meaning that governments are more or less republican, as they have more or less of the element of popular election and control in their composition; and believing, as I do, that the mass of the citizens is the safest depository of their own rights, and especially, that the evils flowing from the duperies of the people are less injurious than those from the egoism of their agents, I am a friend to that composition of government which has in it the most of this ingredient. And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Quoted in "Germany plots with the Kremlin" - Page 49 - by Tete Harens Tetens - 1953

Source: "Ivica Dacic: Forced solutions don’t lead to stability of the region" in The Srpska Times https://thesrpskatimes.com/ivica-dacic-forced-solutions-dont-lead-to-stability-of-the-region/ (18 September 2018)

“They (i. e., the peasants) could imagine no future more grim than their past.”
Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 86 (p. 575)