"What bothers me about today's "liberals" is this: through the ages, those called liberal fought to take the power away from the kings and the emperors and to give it to the parliaments; now it is the "liberals" who are anxious to give more and more power to the executive, at the expense of the legislative branch."
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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansMembers of the United States SenatePoliticians from Massachusetts
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Yankee from the West (1962), chapter 19, p. 428.
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Burton K. Wheeler
Burton Kendall Wheeler (February 27, 1882 â January 6, 1975) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a United States Senator from 1923 until 1947.
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