Andrew Jackson Quotes

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd, into that of social man, gathered into fixed communities and surrounding himself with the comforts and blessings of neighborhood, country, and home. It is agriculture alone, that fixes men in stationary dwellings, in villages, in towns, and cities, and enables the work of civilizations, in all its branches, to go on.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

The civilized world is far ahead of us. We have no choice but to catch up.

I saw their fields under very respectable cultivation, and bearing good crops. They had exchanged their original rude wigwams for comfortable houses, with barns and offices attached to them, scarcely if at all inferior to those of the whites, and some of the houses have little plots or gardens in front kept in good order… All these marks of improvement surprised us; we did not expect to meet with a state of such high comparative civilization.

America…could within twenty years bring us to a degree of development which Turks, left to themselves, would not be able to achieve in a century. It would make Turkey prosperous, rich and happy and turn Turks into a strong and civilized nation.

Go ask Virginia— go ask even noble Maryland ... to show you her people, canals, railroads, universities, schools, charities, commerce cities, and cultivated areas.

We all know deep inside that no country is the same as it was 5 years ago.

The pace of change and development in our country is rapid and appreciable.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

Tomorrow country then, tomorrow country now.

In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense.

There's no question that technology is extraordinarily competitive.

All things evolve, and European football needs to evolve as well.

I want Europe to go forward, not backward.

My motto for Seoul is 'From Good to Great.'

Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

...the first sign of civilization is always trash.

We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began here in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous.