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

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

It's been 25 years now, and truthfully, time sometimes blurs the memory.

The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.