“We have to think of the future and not of the past. This also applies in a small way to our own affairs at home. There are many who would hold an inquest in the House of Commons on the conduct of the Governments—and of Parliaments, for they are in it, too—during the years which led up to this catastrophe. They seek to indict those who were responsible for the guidance of our affairs. This also would be a foolish and pernicious process….Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

—Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, June 18, 1940

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