"I am proclaiming that our society will truly be an entirely new society.  In this long distance race, we are already several laps ahead of our closest competitors.  The merit lies with the empire for it presented us with an enormous threat and it was this challenge that spurred us on.  Theirs is the merit and the only thing our noble, generous, brave and intelligent people have done is to take up that challenge; today it does so, with the force of a multitude of developed intellects".