
“There are three constants in life… Change, Choice and Principles.”
Address at the Cow Palace on Accepting the Nomination of the Republican National Convention (August 23, 1956). Source: Eisenhower Presidential Library. Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20210125121539/https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes from the original https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/quotes on Janunary 25, 2021.
1950s
“There are three constants in life… Change, Choice and Principles.”
“Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. ”
Source: Propaganda & The Ethics Of Persuasion (2002), Chapter One, Why Study Propaganda?, p. 15
Source: Speech on Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland (29 October 1867); quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 291.
“Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.”
Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
Book 3, “Sad Giant’s Shield,” Chapter 3 “A Watery Summoning” (p. 545)
The Elric Cycle, Stormbringer (1965)
1 Cababe & Ellis' Q. B. D. Rep. 135.
Reg. v. Ramsey (1883)
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
"Thoughts," Postscriptum de ma vie, in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography, Funk and Wagnalls (1907) as translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke
Source: Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion
2014, 25th Anniversary of Polish Freedom Day Speech (June 2014)
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”