Quotes About Progress

Errors sanctified by long usage are not easily relinquished.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

I think we agree, the past is over.

It will take time to restore chaos

Science goes from question to question big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

The security of our world is found in the advancing rights of mankind.

Because free peoples believe in the future, free peoples will own the future.

As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon, and to prepare for new journeys to worlds beyond our own.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Poland was a reminder to the world that there is more to history and power than brute force; the human spirit can bend the course of history in nobler directions. Culture drives history, over the long haul.

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

A life is only a link in the chain. I want other people to continue the experience begun by those before me and dedicate themselves like me and the others before me to this--to go to the furthest reaches of the possible.

Le danger n'est pas dans la multiplication des machines, mais dans le nombre sans cesse croissant d'hommes habitués, dès leur enfance, à ne désirer que ce que les machines peuvent donner.

Le sacrifice de l'Homme à l'Humanité, de l'Humanité au Progrès, pour aboutir ridiculement au sacrifice du progrès lui-même à la dictature de l'Économique, tel fut le crime auquel restera toujours attaché le mot de la Démocratie, forme bourgeoise de la Révolution.

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.