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No country can afford to have its prosperity originated by a small controlling class.
The New Freedom (1913)
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated.
The New Freedom (1913)
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The New Freedom (1913)
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
The New Freedom (1913)
We are at the parting of the ways.
The New Freedom (1913)
American industry is not free, as once it was free; American enterprise is not free; the man with only a little capital is finding it harder to get into the field, more and more impossible to compete with the big fellow.
The New Freedom (1913)
Government is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life. It is accountable to Darwin, not to Newton.
The New Freedom (1913)
So, our honest politicians and our honorable corporation heads owe it to their reputations to bring their activities out into the open.
The New Freedom (1913)
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
The New Freedom (1913)
All that progressives ask or desire is permission — in an era when "development," "evolution," is the scientific word — to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle; all they ask is recognition of the fact that a nation is a living thing and not a machine.
The New Freedom (1913)
In most parts of our country men work, not for themselves, not as partners in the old way in which they used to work, but generally as employees,—in a higher or lower grade,—of great corporations. There was a time when corporations played a very minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.
The New Freedom (1913)