"But for that pearl we may have to sell many others. What are we prepared to give for it? What are we ready to surrender? According to our consecrated enterprise will be our holy gains... If we contentedly hug the good we can never gain the better. If we take our ease in the realm of the better we can never enter the best."
- Jonas Basanavičius, born 1851-11-23 in Oszkobole, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (on the land of present day Lithuania)