History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends. The Holy Family (1845)
Lincoln's place in the history of the United States and of mankind will, nevertheless, be next to that of Washington! Comments on the North American Events (1862)
Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852)
Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).