History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons.

A nation which is ignorant of its history cannot properly make choices about its future.

You know the expression "My country, right or wrong." Well, these days, Americans are apt to think, "My country, wrong."

XVII. THE PROPAGANDA OF HISTORY

How the facts of American history have in the last half century have been falsified because the nation was ashamed. The South was ashamed because it fought to perpetuate human slavery. The North was ashamed because it had to call in the black men to save the Union, abolish slavery and establish democracy.

With all the stir made about education, the ignorance of our own country's history is something lamentable and appalling and depressing.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten

A nation that forgets its past has no future

The knowledge of our own history is our memory, and so the recorded history of a nation is the memory of the nation: woe to the country and people that forget it; an infant people has no history, as a child has a short and transient memory: the strong man and the strong nation feel the pulsation of the past in the life of the present: their memory is vital, long and strong. Neglect of historical study and knowledge is to a nation what the loss of memory is to a man—a sign of old age and decrepitude, or the effect of some terrible disease in an individual; it is in a nation a sign of lost independence in manners and ways of thought—a moral decrepitude waxed old and ready to vanish away; or perhaps in this case also the result of some terrible convulsion—a wave of revolution rolling over the land, overthrowing laws and institutions, and washing away old landmarks, as you may see in the France of this day.

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

...I’m always shocked by the lack of historical awareness on the part of the average American. Many of the people who have come here did so to forget history, to turn their backs on history.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

We have failed in portraying historical events in an incorrect manner. Moreover, in allowing for the destruction of Churches and historic monuments, in someway we have allowed for the destruction of our own history.

Americans, 150 years after the Civil War began, are still getting it wrong.