And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.
I began to realize that, in spite of great achievements in wealth and military prowess, the great powers of Europe have not yet succeeded in providing the greatest happiness of the vast majority of the people; and that the reformers in these European countries were working hard for a new social revolution.
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.