William McKinley Quotes

In our State the locomotive has waked up the sleeping energies of a great people, and is transforming wasted fields into blooming gardens, and arousing men and women from the dull and heavy sleep that dwells with satisfaction upon the past, into the bright intelligence that looks to a glorious future ….

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

We can go into no mechanic shop, into no manufactory of any description, upon no farm or plantation, or travel a mile on our railroads or in our steamboats, without seeing evidence of our originality and witnessing the fruits of our ingenuity and enterprise.

Steam and the telegraph and other machinery have required capital greater than any individual can furnish.

Modernization is found in markets.

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

The War of 1812 has given new direction to wealth and industry in the United States, and manufacturers grew up as if by magic.

Industrial Revolution

The new always competes with the old and destroys it. Men who build railroads destroy stage coach lines.

I am not afraid of new inventions or improvements, nor bigoted to the practices of our forefathers. It is that bigotry which keeps the Indians in a state of barbarism in the midst of the arts and would have kept us in the same state even now

America…could within twenty years bring us to a degree of development which Turks, left to themselves, would not be able to achieve in a century. It would make Turkey prosperous, rich and happy and turn Turks into a strong and civilized nation.

People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.