Will Marshall
Will Marshall
Will Marshall is one of the founders of the New Democrat movement, which aims to steer the US Democratic Party toward a more conservative orientation. Since its founding in 1989, he has been president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council...
advice president election
I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president.
stars sight light
We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.
american-leader life
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
american-leader clear shall unless
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
opportunity time
I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.
rights law wealth
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
rights use benefits
Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
effects labour
All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
differences degrees kind
Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.
negative may consumption
Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
slavery slave ordinances
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.
oil imagination done
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing strata.
watches silent theater
I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
names known
My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.