Archibald Philip Primrose Rosebery Quotes

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

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

The progress of a nation can alone prevent degeneration. There must be new life and purpose or there will be weakness and decay. There must be broadening of thought as well as broadening of trade. Territorial expansion is not alone and always necessary to national advancement. There must be a constant movement toward a higher and nobler civilization, a civilization that shall make its conquests without resort to war, and achieve its greatest victories pursuing the arts of peace. In our present situation, duty and duty alone should prescribe the boundary of our responsibilities and the scope of our undertakings.

It is with nations as with nature which knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Civilizations die from suicide, not murder

The day you are content, you will stop growing.

When you stop adapting, you lose your edge and you can only go down.

Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

Who does not grow, declines.

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate.

Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress.

We've made progress in our country, and it's been the Constitution that permitted that to happen.

We are an unfinished nation.

I am of the firm belief that the nation should progress on the issue of development. And it is necessary that the country moves forward on the issue of development.

The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

If you're satisfied with everything you're just going to stay at one level and the world will move ahead.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.