Top Progressivism Quotes

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

Nine out of ten eugenicists in the 20th Century were also Progressives or Socialists, as central to the eugenic creed is the desire to engineer and centrally plan human reproduction and heredity. Thes...

But a progressive policy needs more than just a bigger break with the economic and moral assumptions of the past 30 years. It needs a return to the conviction that economic growth and the affluence it...

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

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

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

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

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.

The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of wh...

You are cordially invited to go fuck yourself.

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.

What came in the end was only a small war and a quick victory; when the farmers and the gentlemen finally did coalesce in politics, they produced only the genial reforms of Progressivism; and the man...

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

Neither Fascist Italy nor Spain adopted eugenics as an ideology central to their form of government the way the National Socialist did. However, socialist and progressive nations such as Canada, Swede...

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion.

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.

I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in...

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

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