There are two ideas of government.
There are those who believe
that you just legislate
to make the well-to-do prosperous,
that their prosperity will
leak through on those below.
The Democratic idea has been
that if you legislate
to make the masses prosperous
their prosperity will find its way up
and through every class that rests upon it.
-- William Jennings Bryan
(addressing the Democratic National Convention, Chicago 1896)
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