James Russell Lowell Quotes About Progress
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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
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The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.
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New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
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