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

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

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

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.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

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.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

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.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

The earth’s crust has not yet stopped heaving and plunging under our feet. Mountain ranges are still being thrust up on the horizon. Granites are still growing under the continental masses. Nor has the organic world ceased to produce new buds at the tips of its countless branches.

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

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.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

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

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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 Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.