Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
I am troubled that sometimes in our political discourse we spend all of our time focused on the challenges of the next century rather than on the opportunities of the new century.
If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.
The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
For every minute, the future is becoming the past.