General Von Schleicher

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“Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“Music at its best is not in need of novelty; indeed, the older it is, the more one is accustomed to it, the stronger its effect.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)