Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Progressivism is the belief that we have too much freedom with which to make too many stupid choices. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community... — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Progress must not become progressivism, where success is measured only by achieving pragmatic results. — Mal Fletcher Copy Share Image
To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Progress ages badly. Each generation brings a new model of progressivism which discards with contempt the previous model. Nothing is more grotesque… — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“The irony is that when you set out to remove bias you use your own possibly unconscious biases in deciding what's harmful… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
In many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
In San Francisco, we strive to be a beacon of progressivism for the rest of the country and the world, whether it… — London Breed Copy Share Image
Too often in the post-9/11 world, when the time has come to translate the moral, and essentially progressive, roots of foreign policy… — Richard Just Copy Share Image
These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“It was left to the Progressive movement in America (as to the Fabians in Britain) to promote eugenics, Prohibition, dietary fads, the… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one frequently as strong or stronger… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I want to see a more progressive Democratic ticket. I'm not happy with the Democratic Leadership Council's dominance of the party. And… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is fair to say, Bernie Sanders, that in your definition, as you being the self-proclaimed gatekeeper for progressivism, I don't know… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you… — Jim James Copy Share Image
“the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“During the last ten years or so, I've seen quite a lot of Gordon, selling off his land for him. You know… — Bob Leman Copy Share Image
“The test of a progressive policy is not private but public, not just rising income and consumption for individuals, but widening the… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“There is a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Forever seeking Archimedean levers for prying the world in directions they prefer, progressives say they embrace high-speed rail for many reasons—to improve… — George Will Copy Share Image
There are few problems in the world that economic prosperitycannot help solve. Yet the engines of that prosperity are under fierceattack. The… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“The support many Progressives lent to Prohibition reflected that naiveté, and though the Progressive Movement began to dissipate during World War I,… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“[John Stuart] Mill held that truth emerges from an unfettered competition of ideas and that individual character is most improved when allowed… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“Oligarchies, throughout past history, have always thought more of their own advantage than of that of the rest of the community. It… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent,… — Robert Lewis Dabney Copy Share Image
“Progressivism was imported from Europe and would result in a radical break from America’s heritage. In fact, it is best described as… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy.” — Simon Cottee Copy Share Image
“Progressivism, in short, was to a very considerable extent led by men who suffered from the events of their time not through… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Well-intentioned liberalism always leads to progressivism. There's no choice there. Once that action is taken the only thing you can run on… — Dan Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“...progressives start small. They introduce 'commonsense' regulations and restrictions that will supposedly save lives. Then, each time the public's attention is captured,… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“FDR is the canonized hero of American progressivism. Subsequent Democratic presidents, from Lyndon Johnson to Obama, have all sought to expand the… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA. — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
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