Progressive Era Quotes

I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.

— Barack Obama

“Puritanism,” wrote H.L. Mencken, whose lifetime spanned the first progressive era, is the “haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy.” Who”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country…

— Eban Goodstein

What, after all, is the narrative of 'the American Dream?' It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in…

— Naomi Wolf

My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.…

— Erik Larson

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers,…

— Michael Specter

“Disenchanted with the direction of modern America, they launched an ambitious, privately financed war of ideas to radically change the country. They…

— Jane Mayer

“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the…

— Robert Reich

“The Kochs were not alone. As they sought ways to steer American politics hard to the right without having to win the…

— Jane Mayer

“Once in public office, Mellon helped define the 1920s as an era during which business succeeded in rolling back many of the…

— Jane Mayer

This is a deeply uncanny and very troubling development, it exists, and it wants to take us back. It wants to take…

— Mark Crispin Miller