Progressive Quotes - Page 2

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.

Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

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

In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context.

The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is realized and appropriated by faith.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.

Success is the progressive, timely achievement of your stated goals.

It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.