„We have taken our last backwards step.“

— Ulysses S. Grant
„It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.“
— Vladimir Lenin
„You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.“
— Ronald Reagan
„Federal Switzerlandization would be a huge step backwards for Germany. Two“
— Vladimir Lenin
„A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn't think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests.“
— Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
„It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.“
— Louis Sachar