The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

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

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

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