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By William Howard Taft
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
- Source
- Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers, 1916 · p. 66
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- Internet Archive (University of Toronto scan of the 1916 first edition, New York: Columbia University Press)
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From Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (New York: Columbia University Press, 1916), Taft's lectures at Columbia. He writes it in a passage on the dangers of the classified civil service, where mail carriers and other permanent employees form associations that act like trade unions.