Progressive PrinciplesProgressive national service, 1913 - 330 pages |
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... fighting for the spoils of office over dead issues . They had no ade- quate economic or social programme , and both were controlled by men who neither understood nor cared for the consequences and needs brought by the great changes of ...
... fighting for the spoils of office over dead issues . They had no ade- quate economic or social programme , and both were controlled by men who neither understood nor cared for the consequences and needs brought by the great changes of ...
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... fights fearlessly and effectively against special privilege in any form is to that extent a Progressive . Every man who , directly or indirectly , upholds privilege and favors the special interests , whether he acts from evil motives or ...
... fights fearlessly and effectively against special privilege in any form is to that extent a Progressive . Every man who , directly or indirectly , upholds privilege and favors the special interests , whether he acts from evil motives or ...
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... fight will go on . Our op- ponents , representing the brute power of seated privi- lege , can only win by using the led captains of mer- cenary politics , and the crooked financiers who stand behind those led captains , and those ...
... fight will go on . Our op- ponents , representing the brute power of seated privi- lege , can only win by using the led captains of mer- cenary politics , and the crooked financiers who stand behind those led captains , and those ...
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... fight under them . We fight to make this country a better place to live in for those who have been harshly treated by fate ; and if we succeed it will also be a better place to live in for those who have been well treated . None of us ...
... fight under them . We fight to make this country a better place to live in for those who have been harshly treated by fate ; and if we succeed it will also be a better place to live in for those who have been well treated . None of us ...
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... fighting for the weak , I am also fighting for the strong . The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present . If the fathers cause others to eat bitter bread , the teeth of their own ...
... fighting for the weak , I am also fighting for the strong . The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present . If the fathers cause others to eat bitter bread , the teeth of their own ...
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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.