History is a novel for which the people is the author.
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame