Command Quote by Slobodan Milosević

Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness,

— Mia Couto

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

History is the memory of a nation

— Thomas Sowell

“Historians usually focus their attention on the past of countries that still exist, writing hundreds and thousands of books on British history, French history,…

— Norman Davies

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

— Horace Binney Wallace

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin…

— Juan Goytisolo

Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture.

— Moshe Safdie

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

— 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

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history…

— Robert D. Kaplan

I think part of the disappointing failure of the political process in America today is that it's asking us to forget countries' historic connections…

— Cate Blanchett

“If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious,…

— John Bagot Glubb