Quote by Robert M. Gates

It seems to me that progress, more-often-than-not, comes under the cloak of compromise.

— T Jay Taylor

“(O)n a whole range of issues, there has been a massive popular shift in public opinion toward a progressive critique of the current political…

— Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed introduction to Censored 2013

“genuine individualism and constitutional republicanism, the latter two being obstacles to a centralized state in which it is claimed that governing authority exists at…

— Mark R. Levin

Progress in our country has always been too slow, and creating change has always been difficult, but we must continue marching towards those ideals…

— Ralph Northam

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

“technologies come and go. Economic structures evolve and change. Society adjusts. But democratic basics persist in spite of the Tofflers, Gingrich and the chorus…

— John Ralston Saul

“I believe the United States government is being systematically taken over by a revolutionary network. They call themselves Progressives, but we know they are…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdi-vided, made sophisticated.…

— Haruki Murakami

“The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.' ”

— James Newman

The fact is, you never compromise on principles. If people on the far Left, they have a principle to stand by, they should never…

— Richard Mourdock

“the Left’s current inability to formulate a critique of bureaucracy that actually speaks to its erstwhile constituents is synonymous with the decline of the…

— David Graeber

Much of our American progress has been the product of the individual who had an idea; pursued it; fashioned it; tenaciously clung to it…

— Hubert H. Humphrey