Quotes from Thomas C. Leonard

The roster of progressives who advocated exclusion of hereditary inferiors reads like a Who's Who of American economic reform.

Interstate commerce grew so rapidly that hundreds of local clock conventions had to be replaced by a national system of standardized time in 1883.

The progressives gave us the professor of social science, the scholar-activist, the social worker, the muckraking journalist, and the economic expert advising or serving in government.

Mill was no apologist for capitalism. When he wrote, "laisser-faire should be the general practice," he was not uncritically extolling the virtues of free markets, the manifold failures of which he had so scrupulously catalogued.15 Mill, rather, feared that government cures were worse than market diseases, and he spoke from experience.