Citizens Quote by Abraham Lincoln

We cannot escape history.

— Abraham Lincoln

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

We cannot hide from history.

— Raphael Warnock

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance,…

— Abraham Lincoln

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

— Robert Heilbroner

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

We are all citizens of history.

— Clifton Fadiman

History is a means of access to ourselves.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

— Tony Judt

History is one thing that nobody can take away. No matter what anybody says or whose side you're on.

— May Pang

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

— Erik Erikson

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer