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Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

Progress must not become progressivism, where success is measured only by achieving pragmatic results.

Liberal progressivism evolved after our Constitution. It has repeatedly failed all over the world so why do we think it could be successful here in the United States of America?

Progressivism is the cancer in America, and it is eating our Constitution. It was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution.

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

This is the disease in America. It's not just spending. It's not just taxes. It's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And it is in both Parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.

Obama's rhetorical overtures to democracy, it turned out, were just a decoy to conceal his unwavering determination to govern from the far left.

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA.

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.

Putting People First was progressivism revived, and at its best.

That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics.

Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.

Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.

Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines.

There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.

People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting.

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

You like to think that people, in general, and I mean on the scale of generations, are learning from their mistakes, getting better. But with what all I seen, I don't know if I could believe that.

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.

The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.