The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag
