Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

A great nation cannot throw off the responsibilities which its past history and its position in the world have imposed upon it.

A nation’s attitude toward its own history is like a window into its own soul.

A nation creates itself not just with what it remembers, but with what it forgets.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

A nation is a historical group of men of recognizable cohesion, held together by a common enemy.

Happy is the nation without a history.

A nation builds museums to understand its own history and to have its history understood by others, to create a common space and language to address collectively what is too difficult to process individually.

I just love learning about the past and everything we've been through as people and as a country.

History is the memory of a nation

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

No people can live in the past - not even in its own past. But if it no longer has a link with its history, it must of necessity perish. Persia, crowded with hardship and glory, ordeals and hopes. With the help of the Almighty, the lessons of the past constitute the best guide for the citizens of the future.

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

... My firm conviction [is] that it is the force of ideas rather than the impact of material things that made us a great nation. It is my conviction, too, that only the power of ideas, of enduring values, can keep us a great nation. For where there is not vision the people perish

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

The sense of German history is a constantly repeated attempt to find the beginning.

Any nation that forgets its past cannot have a future.

Indian nationalism is the nationalism of an idea, the idea of an ever-ever land, emerging from an ancient civilization, shaped by a shared history, sustained by pluralist democracy.

The general idea of history seems to be that it is the biography of a society…. History is to the common life of many what biography is to an individual.

For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.

We must protect our history - because we are doomed to repeat it if we don't understand it and work towards a more perfect union.

Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways, it's a blessing. It makes them cautious.