There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones. - William Penn - Quotesmemo.com

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It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking of the remaining opposition to the commodification of everything, and it tended to wipe away all the negatives of capitalism on the grounds that the benefits outweighed, by far, the harm.

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William Penn

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

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