You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

← Back to quotes

Interview

You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.

James Callaghan

1976

★ 3.5

Other tags relating to this quote

Topic

Political progress Progress

Medium

Interview

Time

1976

Person

James Callaghan

Provenance

Citation

Callaghan, James. Speech at a Labour Party Conference. Labour Party Conference. 28 Sept. 1976, Blackpool, England, UK.

Related quotes

Other quotes that share a subject, a time, or a voice with this one.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass

1857

Another quote aboutTopic·Political progress

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

Karl Marx

Theses on Feurbach · 1845

Another quote aboutTopic·Political progress

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong

1969

Another quote aboutTopic·Progress

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one... But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Theodore Parker

1853

Another quote aboutTopic·Progress

There are times, perhaps once every thirty years, when there is a sea-change in politics. It then does not matter what you say or what you do. There is a shift in what the public wants and what it approves of. I suspect there is now such a sea-change-and it is for Mrs. Thatcher.

James Callaghan

1979

Another quote byPerson·James Callaghan

Other media

Works in other forms that share a subject with this one.

Other media onSubject·Progress

Book · 1962

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

Book · 1957

The Cairo Trilogy

Naguib Mahfouz

You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it. — James Callaghan

Related quotes

Other media