There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Man is remembered by his deeds.
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.