Famous quotes containing the word progress:
“War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“Consider the China pride and stagnant self-complacency of mankind. This generation inclines a little to congratulate itself on being the last of an illustrious line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with satisfaction.... It is the good Adam contemplating his own virtue.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)