While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
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.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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