Henry Waxman Quotes

Any nation that forgets its past cannot have a future.

It's incumbent on all of us to remember our history and not repeat our past sins.

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.

Every American should have a say in the memorials we choose to build in our nation. Family members have a special responsibility.

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

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

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

Congress has a moral obligation as caretaker of America's culture.

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

Don't ever forget the history! It will make and change who we are!

Remembering doesn’t help the remembered. It is for the rest of us.

There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.

You have to have people who prick the consciences of the nation.

Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.

Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War.

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

The more I travel, the more I see how important it is to each population to see that their history of the good and the bad is remembered by others.

I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

I can say that we are very clear in our mind about the responsibility of the national soldiers for the break with civilisation that was the Shoah. We are firmly convinced that this is something that will have to be handed over to generations to come... so we don't see any reason to change our view of history.

Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

When you're driving into D.C. as a young kid and you go over the Key Bridge and see the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and Capitol Building, they become a part of the landscape for you. You are also constantly in contact with this idea that history, and the people that made it, are being remembered.