Frank B. Kellogg Quotes

I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change.

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

I'll say this for reformers—they're mighty patient.

The reformer does not want to move left; he wants to move forward.

We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just.

I've seen anti-Semitism essentially disappear in my adult life as a social and economic factor. There may be some nuts out there, but generally things are fine. I think the same thing will happen with gayness. We'll get to a point soon enough where it's not even an issue anymore. But progress can be slow

Humans and nations are imperfect, and through our collective efforts, we hope to improve our nation and bring hope and opportunity to millions who lack it.

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

Anything is better than stagnation.

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

See the gift that change delivers.

I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.