It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.