“In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.”
“Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.”
“Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.”
“Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.”
“No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity”
“[If] we wish to diminish the love of money which, we are told, is the root of all evil, the first step must be the creation of a system in which everyone has enough and no one has too much.”