“Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.”
1970s, First Presidential address (1974)
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29-Jun-2005, Radio Derby
I think he's covered all the angles there.
“We must together chart a new way forward to save our beloved nation”
Mr Anwar said in a statement from his jail cell, quoted on The Sydney Morning Herald, "Mahathir Mohamad wins jailed Anwar Ibrahim's backing in bit to oust Malaysian PM Najib Razak" http://www.smh.com.au/world/mahathir-mohamad-wins-jailed-anwar-ibrahims-backing-in-bit-to-oust-malaysian-pm-najib-razak-20160303-gnabf8.html, 4 March 2016.
“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
“When I go forwards, you go backwards
And somewhere we will meet”
"Electioneering"
Lyrics, OK Computer (1997)
“Virtue, if not in action, is a vice,
And, when we move not forward, we go backward.”
The Maid of Honour (c. 1621; printed 1632), Act I, scene i.
“But we can't go back. We can only go forward.”
Variant: One can never go back. One always has to move forward.
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
1940s, Third Inaugural Address (1941)
Context: In the face of great perils never before encountered, our strong purpose is to protect and to perpetuate the integrity of democracy. For this we muster the spirit of America, and the faith of America. We do not retreat. We are not content to stand still. As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
“You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.”
Source: Bloodfever