Winston Churchill Quotes

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

We live in a changing world … shall we maintain all our theaters in the same traditional box.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse.

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

I believe we find ourselves in a period of radical transformation. Regardless of whether it is digitalization, the environment or terrorism. We can be successful in this new world. We have the necessary willingness. The French are inventive and innovative. But we need to finally pick ourselves up.

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

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

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

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

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.