In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

You may say, ‚Well, dragons don’t exist.‘ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‚predator‘ and the category ‚dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it’s like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

This young century will be liberty’s century.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

New roads; new ruts.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Nothing recedes like progress.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.