Douglas Alexander Quotes

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Ultimately, progress and innovation win.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

We can't look for greatness in the past.

We don't want to live in the past; we want to go into the future.

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.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Denver is a city that will be far more defined by its future than its past.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

While the United States of today is not the United States of yesterday there are unmistakable indications that she is also not the United States of tomorrow.

Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

The world is evolving, and we must evolve with it.