Daniel Hulsebosch Quotes

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

Time and changes in the condition and constitution of society may require occasional and corresponding modifications

To this nation and to every nation there come formative periods in its life and history. New conditions can be met only by new methods. Meeting these conditions hopefully, and facing them bravely and wisely, is to be the mightiest test of American virtue and capacity. Without abandoning past limitations, traditions, and principles, by meeting present opportunities and obligations, we shall show ourselves worthy of the great trusts which civilization has imposed upon us.

History has proven that nations do not advance and develop without the continuous renewal of their ideas. This also applies to individuals and people

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

This call for a new culture is not a new idea.

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

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.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

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

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

Don't be content with things as they are.

A few years in the age of nations is nothing.

Time only and long experience can bring remedies to defects in the customs of a state whose form is already determined.