“ There can be no successful government without the intimate, instinctive co-ordination of the organs of life and action. ”
Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913). copy citation
Author | Woodrow Wilson |
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Source | The New Freedom |
Topic | action government |
Date | 1913 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14811/14811-h/14811-h.htm |
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“Government is not a body of blind forces; it is a body of men, with highly differentiated functions, no doubt, in our modern day, of specialization, with a common task and purpose. Their co-operation is indispensable, their warfare fatal. There can be no successful government without the intimate, instinctive co-ordination of the organs of life and action. This is not theory, but fact, and displays its force as fact, whatever theories may be thrown across its track. Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics;”
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