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Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.

One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

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

I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

Nostalgia is eternal for Americans. We are often displaced from our origins and carry anxious memories of that lost past. We fear losing our bearings.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

You don't run for the presidency out of nostalgia.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.