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1949

“Throughout the centuries, there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors stood alone against the men of their time. Every new thought was opposed, every new invention was denounced. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.”

“A man’s self is his spirit. It is the unsacrificed self that we must respect in man above all.”

“Money’s just paper if you don’t spend it.”

“There’s a time to talk and there’s a time to act. I think the time to act is right now.”

“It is the right of the people that they shall not be deprived of hope.”

"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

“Do you know what good comes out of? Out of bad, that’s what good comes out of, because you can’t make it out of anything else.”

“I got where I am by acting on my own honest judgment whether others liked it or not. When you grow older, you’ll see this is the only way to succeed in life.”