Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Because we live in an era of acceleration, we can no longer trust to the evolution of future decades to meet these new problems.

There is change whether we will it or not.

The future, however, rests not on chance alone, not on mere conservatism, mere smugness, mere fatalism, but on the affirmative action which ...

Law defines a relation not always between fixed points, but often between points of varying position.