Pat Buchanan Quotes

If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Now that I'm older, I appreciate my culture and I appreciate Spanish. I feel bad I didn't pick up on it earlier.

The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.

Societies perish when people forget where they come from.

I was so hungry to learn my history, to really know who I was.

I think by embracing your heritage and your history, it just serves you so much more, and you become a deeper and more powerful person by embracing them.

I think my Latino culture has equipped me with a different point of view than the rest of my counterparts, and seeing things from a different angle has helped me a lot. I feel very proud of my culture, of my Latino heritage.

The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.

I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

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

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.