“There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-says-it-will-hold-supporters-taiwans-independence-criminally-responsible-2021-11-05/ "China spurs Taiwan anger with criminal liability threat for independence supporters" in Reuters] (5 November 2021)
“There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Source: Reflections on the Human Condition (1973) Section 53
“I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors. AZ Quotes”
Zhu Rongji (1928) former Premier of the People's Republic of China
Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) Former dictator of the republic of Chile
Speech (25 October 1988), commenting on his defeat in a plebiscite to return to democracy. Quoted in Pamela Constable et al. (1991) A Nation of Enemies
1980s
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) 10th Prime Minister of India
New Delhi, 15-17 April 1983
Quotes from ataljee.org
Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954) American judge
Nuremberg Tribunal.
Opening Address to the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials (10 November 1945)
Quotes from the Nuremberg Trials (1945-1946)
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”
Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France
Volume iii, p. 274
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)
2021, July 2021, Remarks by President Biden on the Drawdown of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan