Quotes about Progress

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

The future will be better tomorrow

Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

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

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. John Adams, U.S. President

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.

I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.