Franklin Delano Roosevelt Quotes on Progress
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Yes. we are on the way back - not by mere chance, not by a turn of the cycle. We are coming back more soundly than ever before because we planned it that way, and don't let anybody tell you differently.
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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 too little.
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A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted - in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command - of his head.
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We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.
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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
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In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.