"The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress"

"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"

"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity"

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre"

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

"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"

"I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me"

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty"

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us"

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