Quotes About Progress

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

We're headed the right way, but we cannot rest. We're a people whose energy and drive have fueled our rise to greatness. And we're a forward-looking nation--generous, yes, but ambitious, not for ourselves but for the world. Complacency is not in our character--not before, not now, not ever.

The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives, and lifts our national spirit. So let us continue the journey.

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured.

Like slavery and piracy, terrorism has no place in the modern world.

Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

As Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.

We were leaving the empty shells of our childhoods behind and becoming prey.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. It's just so easy to give up!

We have used the words "mechanical life," "the mechanical kingdom," "the mechanical world" and so forth, and we have done so advisedly, for as the vegetable kingdom was slowly developed from the mineral, and as, in like manner, the animal supervened upon the vegetable, so now, in these last few ages, an entirely new kingdom has sprung up of which we as yet have only seen what will one day be considered the antediluvian prototypes of the race.

Success soon palls. The joyous time is, when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step, little by little, bit by bit--that is the way to wealth, that is the way to wisdom, that is the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

Contact light.

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.

It might have been a small step for Neil, but it was a big step for me.

Let me say, as I sit here before you today, having walked on the moon, that I am myself still awed by that miracle. That awe, in me and in each of us ... must be the engine of future achievement, not a slow-dimming light from a time once bright.

What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.