To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The ...

To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

quote by George Stanley McGovern
Submitted by Lucian Velea
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