Josiah Strong

As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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Furthermore, it is significant that the marked characteristics of this race are being here emphasized most. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers. ↗

— Josiah Strong

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