The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These tributes disclose the character of nations, the ideals of the human race.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.
Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he bears to live or dares to die.' It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm.
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.