Jules Michelet

“France is a person.”

“History is the resurrection of the flesh.”

“He who would know the future must first know the past.”

“The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the unsettling of false gods.”

“What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.”

“The people, in its highest sense, can be found only in France.”

“History is a novel for which the people is the author.”

“Every man is a people, a history in himself.”

“To be a man is, precisely, to be a creator.”

“Woman is a religion.”

“The fatherland is made of all those who have gone before us, of all who will follow us.”

“The land of France is a poem.”

“The school of the Middle Ages was the Church.”

“Each of us has his own witch.”