We, the people of Indonesia, hereby declare the independence of Indonesia.

To build the world anew.

Belief in one God, nationalism, humanism (internationalism), democracy, social justice.

Berdikari — standing on our own feet.

What history teaches is that peoples and governments have never learned anything from it.

-- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History as a whole is a progressive, gradually self-disclosing revelation of the Absolute.

-- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

History is the teacher of life.

-- Cicero

Bombard the Headquarters — my big-character poster.

-- Mao Zedong

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

-- Helmut Kohl

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

-- Abraham Maslow