"And yet once, a long time ago, you were invincible warriors and artists of genius, audacious navigators, efficient industrialists, and tireless merchants . . And now you have become hotel waiters, tour guides, pimps, antiquaries, forgers, fakers of old pictures, plagiarists, and copyists. Have you forgotten that first of all you are Italians, and that in the language of history this word means: builders of the future?”