Amnesia Quote by David McCullough

It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

— Winston Churchill

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

— Winston Churchill

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

— Henry Giroux

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

— Meridel Le Sueur

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

— Whittaker Chambers

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

— Paula Gunn Allen

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

— Meir Kahane

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

— James Carroll

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets…

— Studs Terkel

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

— Colin Thubron

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

— Ernest Renan