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“Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies”. –William Howard Taft

“We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism, and from the left socialism without internationalism”. –Gregor Strasser

“We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, and effort which no one can spare us”. –Marcel Proust

“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life”. –George Washington

“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floors at night”. –Warren G. Harding

“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word”. –Charles de Gaulle

“Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles”. –Red Skelton

“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken”. –Hans Christian Andersen