Please explain this quote?

Question:a nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, not what it is trying to do- woodrow wilson

what i need is historical examples that prove the point of this quote. i am having a lot of trouble finding any

-thanks

Answers:
What about North Korea?

It seems to be living in 1953
im glad i homeschool and haven't started school yet
its self explaining...
Its kinda like one of those "If you dont know your past your doomed to repeat it" situations. If a country doesn't know, remeber what it was yesterday it may return to how it was. This will stop progress dead in its tracks. Hope this helps.
first of all, "not" should be "nor" in the quote.

Great example is the Vietnam war. Horribly unpopular, misguided and ill managed. Exactly what we are facing in Iraq today. It also forshadows things to come (the "global war on terror.") We were clueless then, we are clueless now, and in the future, you can bet we will be equally clueless.

A related quote that is worth while is that "those who do not learn the lesson of history are doomed to repeat them."
To dpilipis: Where you said "A related quote that is worth while is that 'those who do not learn the lesson of history are doomed to repeat them.'" I think you meant to either say lessons, instead of lesson...Or...it, instead of them. Just thought I'd correct you, considering you seemed big on grammatical correctness.
its like if u dont know about ur past u will never know ur future or present because u ur self have nothing to identify urself with nothing really to relate with...ex world war 1 people thought since we had already had a world war we would never have another until world war 2 happened same can possibly happen in the future like we have never had an atomic war but that might not stop the people of the future from having one...its like u lose urself in the process of now...stuck on this day. Another ex: "Kennedy argues that every president since Wilson has, "embraced the core precepts of Wilsonianism. Nixon himself hung Wilson's portrait in the White House Cabinet Room. Wilson's ideas continue to dominate American foreign policy in the twenty-first century. In the aftermath of 9/11 they have, if anything, taken on even greater vitality." -Wikipedia
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