Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.