The political creators of '21, despite their often negative actions, "...created something magnificent: they were the first ones, within an inseparable part of the Ottoman Empire for four centuries, to lay the foundations of a new state, upon which the later generations built - for better or for worse. If they hadn't laid the first stone back then in New Epidaurus, Greece, to put it in Latin, would remain sine nomine truncus; a geographical trunk without a name. That's why we should not be indifferent towards the past. Let's not forget that what we call present today will be the past of the future. We will not only be judged by the dead, as Palamas writes, but also by the unborn. And it will be sad to be accused as a generation that erased its history."