Ron Chernow Quotes

Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

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

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

Know thy history. Let it horrify you; let it inspire you.

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.

I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

I'm a storyteller; that is what I do. And I'm particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

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

The history of this country is told by showing people who have contributed to it.

No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.

History is an instrument of the most genuine patriotic spirit

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

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

Any nation that forgets its past cannot have a future.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

As Americans, it is always important to remember where we once were and how far we have come.

I do get pissed off when I'm at some gay event, and there's a 25-year-old, and he has no idea who I am. And I say, 'You need to know more about your gay history, boy.' I think the younger generation takes it a little bit for granted.

Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.