1930s, State of the Union Address (1935)
Context: Throughout the world, change is the order of the day. In every Nation economic problems, long in the making, have brought crises of many kinds for which the masters of old practice and theory were unprepared. In most Nations social justice, no longer a distant ideal, has become a definite goal, and ancient Governments are beginning to heed the call.
Thus, the American people do not stand alone in the world in their desire for change. We seek it through tested liberal traditions, through processes which retain all of the deep essentials of that republican form of representative government first given to a troubled world by the United States.
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
During a tour of the United States, as quoted in The New York Times (5 June 1990) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3DD1F30F936A35755C0A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all <br class="br">1990s
“Our characters change as world eras change, as our features change, slowly from day to day.”
James Anthony Froude book The Nemesis of Faith
Arthur's commentary
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: Our characters change as world eras change, as our features change, slowly from day to day. Nothing is sudden in this world. Inch hy inch; drop by drop; line by line. Even when great convulsions shatter down whole nations, cities, monarchies, systems, human fortunes, still they are but the finish, the last act of the same long preparing, slowly devouring change, in which the tide of human affairs for ever ebbs and flows, without haste, and without rest.
“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first. ”
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
“Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
Larry Hogan (1956) American politician
" Governor Larry Hogan Mobilizes State Resources To Support Baltimore City Law Enforcement Response http://governor.maryland.gov/2015/04/28/governor-larry-hogan-mobilizes-state-resources-to-support-baltimore-city-law-enforcement-response/" (28 April 2015).
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007) American historian, social critic, and public intellectual
The Cycles of American History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986) p. 422
