1960, The New Frontier
Context: But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high — to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future. Today our concern must be with that future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do. [... ] It is a time, in short, for a new generation of leadership — new men to cope with new problems and new opportunities.
“Today a new generation has taken charge of Labour. A new generation that understands the core of change”
His first speech as Leader of the Labour Party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJwOABXNdn4/ 25 Sep 2010
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“But we need not only a new generation of weapons. We need a new generation of thinking.”
Quotes, IPI speech (2000)
Context: But we need not only a new generation of weapons. We need a new generation of thinking.
That means strengthening and renewing our key alliances.
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Nine, Flying and Seeing: New Ways to Learn
“This is the revolution of the new generation.”
Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter I : The Coming American Revolution, p. 4
Context: There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture, and it will change the political structure only as its final act. It will not require violence to succeed, and it cannot be successfully resisted by violence. It is now spreading with amazing rapidity, and already our laws, institutions and social structure are changing in consequence. It promises a higher reason, a more human community, and a new and liberated individual. Its ultimate creation will be a new and enduring wholeness and beauty — a renewed relationship of man to himself, to other men, to society, to nature, and to the land.
This is the revolution of the new generation.
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Letter to George Washington (November 1779)