“Where is the remedy to be sought? At the hands of politicians? They may mean well enough, many of them at any rate, but politics and new political programs are no longer of service to the world—the world has had only too many of them. In the final analysis, the struggle of the politician amounts to little more than a struggle for power.”
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“The Suffering People of Europe.” Nobel Lecture, December 19, 1922.
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