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All that progressives ask or desire is permission — in an era when…

Quote byWoodrow Wilson · 1856–1924

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The New Freedom (1913), Section II: “What Is Progress?”, p. 48.

English (original)

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.

— Woodrow Wilson

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