"Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit"

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards"

"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be"

"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am"

"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress"

"Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast"

"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages"

"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun"

"Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress"