Fred Simpson

“All citizens do have a measure of control, at least in democracies where their votes are counted, of how they belong to their nations. Perhaps they will have more confidence in unconventional choices if they see that each nation's founders were disobedient and unpredictable, men and women of imagination and ambition. The steel of every national monument was once molten.”
― Timothy Snyder, The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe