What matters is what comes out at the end.

Flowering landscapes.

He who does not know the past cannot understand the present, nor shape the future.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

-- John Dewey

Kings are justly called gods, for that they exercise a manner or resemblance of divine power upon earth.

-- James VI and I

Our lives and blood for our King Maria Theresa!

-- Maria Theresa of Austria

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

-- Oliver Cromwell

Terror is nothing other than justice — prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue.

-- Maximilien Robespierre

The mainspring of popular government in revolution is at once virtue and terror — virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless.

-- Maximilien Robespierre