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Full knowledge of the past helps us in dealing with the future.
The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
The collective power of the State can help; but it is the individual's own power of self-help which is most important.
The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
To refuse to take, or to permit others to take, wise and practical action for the remedying of abuses is to invite unwise action under the lead of violent extremists.
The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
Any given case must be treated on its special merits.
The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
We can not tolerate anything approaching a monopoly, especially in the necessaries of life, except on terms of such thoroughgoing governmental control as will absolutely safe guard every right of the public.
The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
Fundamentally, our chief problem may be summed up as the effort to make men as nearly as they can be made, both free and equal; the freedom and equality necessarily resting on a basis of justice and brotherhood.
The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
Nevertheless, the fact that there are dangers in following a given course merely means that we should follow it with a cautious realization of these dangers, and not that we should abandon it, if on the whole it is the right course.
The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
But we must be ready to face any temporary disaster - whether or not brought on by those who will war against us to the knife — if only through such disaster can we attain our goal.
The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
It is not even enough that the fortune should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should only permit it to be gained and kept so long as the gaining and the keeping represent benefit to the community.
The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
The corporation is the creature of government, and the people have the right to handle it as they desire; all they need pay attention to is the expediency of realizing this right in some way that shall be productive of good and not harm.
The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
Our whole experiment is meaningless unless we are to make this a democracy in the fullest sense of the word, in the broadest as well as the highest and deepest significance of the word. It must be made a democracy economically, as well as politically.
The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)