Quotes About Progress

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

As far as I am concerned, freedom summer never really ended.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

Freedom can occur only through education.

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.