Quotes About Progress

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Humility means freedom. It provides growth and takes you out of the cycle of change that you are currently in, which is stagnation.

Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

The price of freedom keeps going up, but the quality keeps deteriorating.

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

The government is a giant logjam in the eternal river of human potential.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.

And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

There's a real sense of freedom now. It's a good time to finish, I think. As much as I'm going to miss it I'm ready to move on and do different things.