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.


Section II: What Is Progress?, p. 48. - The New Freedom (1913)

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Woodrow Wilson Quotes

All that progressives ask or desire is permission — in an era when development, evolution, is the scientific word — to interpret the Constitution ...

All that progressives ask or desire is permission — in an era when development, evolution, is the scientific word — to interpret the Constitution ...

All that progressives ask or desire is permission — in an era when development, evolution, is the scientific word — to interpret the Constitution ...

All that progressives ask or desire is permission — in an era when development, evolution, is the scientific word — to interpret the Constitution ...