John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

Reform is not a period of retreat.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

There is always room for understanding towards those who see the old ways crumbling. And today I say simply this: It must come. It is right that it should come. And when it does, you will find that a burden has been lifted from your shoulders too.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

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

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

We as a nation are not allergic to change and have no desire to sanctify the status quo.

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.