Children Quote by Mary Astor

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

— George Santayana

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

— David McCullough

For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

— Tan Twan Eng

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

— Abram Joseph Ryan

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

— Meridel Le Sueur

One of the things people often say about America is that it's a such a young country, relatively, and its problem - Europeans say…

— Miroslav Penkov

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

— James Carroll

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

— Elie Wiesel

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

— I. L. Peretz

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

— Robert E. Lee

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 the sum of its memories, and when those memories are allowed to die, it is less of a nation.

— Peter Hitchens