Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1295 |
| AUTHOR: | John Ruskin (1819–1900) |
| QUOTATION: | Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Attributed to |
| SUBJECTS: | Past and future |