advance quotes

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

- Edward Gibbon
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.71.

Ifthere istechnological advancewithout social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.

- Michael Harrington
  The Other America: Poverty in the United States, ch.1.

If I advance, follow me. If I retreat, kill me. If I die, avenge me.

- Benito also called Il Duce [the Leader] Mussolini
  Said to senior officials after an attempt on his life, 6  Apr.

Not to go back, is somewhat to advance, And men must walk at least before they dance.

- Alexander Pope
  Imitations of Horace, bk.1, epistle1, l.53^4.

Let me assert my belief that the only thing that we have to fear is fear itselfnameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror that paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

- Franklin D(elano) Roosevelt
  Inaugural address, 4 Mar.