Progressive PrinciplesProgressive national service, 1913 - 330 pages |
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... actual practice the direct election of the President . We believe in securing for the people the right of nominating can- didates for office , from the President down , by direct primaries , because the convention system , good in its ...
... actual practice the direct election of the President . We believe in securing for the people the right of nominating can- didates for office , from the President down , by direct primaries , because the convention system , good in its ...
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... actual workings this feature of the bill has proved thoroughly mischievous and should be repealed . The gentlemen in question and their allies cordially approve the administration of the Pure Food and Drug Bill during the past three ...
... actual workings this feature of the bill has proved thoroughly mischievous and should be repealed . The gentlemen in question and their allies cordially approve the administration of the Pure Food and Drug Bill during the past three ...
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... actual practice proved wholly inadequate to secure . justice in such cases with reasonable speed , and cause intolerable delay and injustice , and those who stand against the changes I propose are champions of wrong and injustice , and ...
... actual practice proved wholly inadequate to secure . justice in such cases with reasonable speed , and cause intolerable delay and injustice , and those who stand against the changes I propose are champions of wrong and injustice , and ...
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... actual and long - continued experience in the use of governmental power to redress social and industrial evils . Again and again earnest workers for social justice have said to me that the most serious obstacles that they have ...
... actual and long - continued experience in the use of governmental power to redress social and industrial evils . Again and again earnest workers for social justice have said to me that the most serious obstacles that they have ...
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... actual experience shows that they work well or ill . But in our hearts we must have this lofty purpose , and we must strive for it in all earnest- ness and sincerity , or our work will come to nothing . In order to succeed we need ...
... actual experience shows that they work well or ill . But in our hearts we must have this lofty purpose , and we must strive for it in all earnest- ness and sincerity , or our work will come to nothing . In order to succeed we need ...
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Page 14 - That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles— right and wrong— throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same...
Page 66 - At the same time the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 48 - Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the •world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Page 22 - It may be said in a general way that the police power extends to all the great public needs. ... It may be put forth in aid of what is sanctioned by usage, or held by the prevailing morality or strong and preponderant opinion to be greatly and immediately necessary to the public welfare.
Page 14 - No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.
Page 48 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 134 - This relative matter of national power and State rights, as a principle, is no other than the principle of generality and locality. Whatever concerns the whole should be confided to the whole — to the General Government; while whatever concerns only the State should be left exclusively to the State.
Page 42 - We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
Page 95 - this country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
Page 197 - The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.