The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

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

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

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.

Trap is new. It didn’t start yesterday, but when I was 5, it didn’t exist – not even in the U.S. I’ve evolved with the music.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

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.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

London is a roost for every bird.