[ProgressingAmerica]

And there it is. I have that reaction all the time when I research things.

This history matters. This is progressivism, their history. We can use it, if/when we just go looking for it. There’s a lot of value here, in all of this.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Here's the money quote, in my opinion:

You know it is my principle, no less than yours, that every man shall have an equal chance with every other man: if I saw my way to it as a practical politician, I should be willing to go farther and superintend every man's use of his chance. But the means? The question with me is not whether the community has power to act as it may please in these matters, but how it can act with practical advantage — a question of policy.'