Rush Limbaugh Quotes

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

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.

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.

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

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.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

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

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

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

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

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

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.