Quotes About Progress

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

We choose to go to the moon.

I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." [ Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress , 13 March 1962]

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. [Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. [Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963]

League before landing the job in Charlotte in 1998. He was only thirty

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have the liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecutre, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine.

Clearly, the John Adams of 1774 was quite different from the man who proclaimed "Farewell Politicks" in 1766 and again in 1771 and 1772.

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.

The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln

All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.