
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Governments which live in fear of tomorrow's headline are incapable of any change.”
First speech of Tony Abbott to Australian Parliament https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:%22chamber/hansardr/1994-05-31/0043%22, 1994.
First speech to Parliament
Andrew Grove, in: " What I've Learned: Andy Grove http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a1449/learned-andy-grove-0500/", Esquire magazine, May 1, 2000
New millennium
General sources
Source: "My Own View" in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1978) edited by Robert Holdstock;
Context: It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
“Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government”
Speech at a Republican Banquet, Chicago, Illinois, December 10, 1856 http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:413?rgn=div1;view=fulltext; see Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 532
1850s
Context: Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
“Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.”
Speech (July 25 and 27, 1846); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), Vol. V, p. 187
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”
My Study Windows (1871)