“Nor do I understand how anyone can feel that industrial progress has been made at the expense of social progress nor why any American should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or statism, which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions, can produce a happier and more prosperous society.”

Charles E. Wilson in, The Commonwealth: A Forum for Creation of Public Opinion, p. 1946

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