Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

From the first time I did a movie, people have said, 'Oh, it's all going to change now.' And it would change, but very incrementally. I think I prefer that to some big explosion of fame all of the sudden.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Piety and virtue lie in obedience and conformity, while nothing is more repugnant than change and innovation.

To be a Conservative is to prefer the tried to the untried, the fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the super-abundant, the convenient to the perfect present, laughter to utopian bliss.

I'm progressive, and I'm practical.

You want to stay grounded, but you need to keep the music growing.

I'm always the "less is more" guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I'm still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.

Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.

Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

Let nothing be changed and all be different.