Ocupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Life: November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965
Birthday: November 30
Death: January 24
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.
source: Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland
topic: Revenge, Blessed, Past, Gladstone, Hatred And Revenge