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Quotes About Progress

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
History tends to change people who think they're changing it.
~ Terry Pratchett
Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
~ Larry Wall
History is the seed bed of the future.
~ Leo Booth
History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.
~ Leo Tolstoy
History's a resource.
~ Laura Linney
But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.
~ Laurent Fabius
Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
~ Madame de Stael
History is not hatred.
~ Malcolm X
Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.
~ Todd Tiahrt
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.
~ Margaret Atwood
I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.
~ Mark Cuban
Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.
~ Mark McKinnon
I think Hillary Clinton - first of all, it's a great victory, acknowledge it. She has made history.
~ Mark Shields
Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.
~ Mary McCarthy
History is not an endless succession of meaningless circles but a directed movement toward a great event.
~ Max Lucado
Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Doing the impossible is the history of this nation. It is how this country was built
~ Michelle Obama
We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.
~ Michelle Obama
I believe that the ideals that America has stood for throughout our history represent the highest ideals of humankind.
~ Mike Pence