Quotes about Reform

Change only comes through breakdown or revolution.

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

We are not Protestants any more—just ''non-Catholics''! Of what and of whom do we protest? Were we half as hot as we think we are, and a tenth as powerful as we say we are, our Christians would be baptized in blood, as well as in water and in fire.

When what you're doing doesn't work for 50 years, it's time to try something new.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

Folks, we want to end Obamacare. We want to go to a plan that is so much better and so much less expensive, right?

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

Their most notable defect was that they considered work a virtue, even manual labor. They were materialists, conquerors, and they were infused with a messianic enthusiasm for reforming those who did not think as they did; they did not, however, represent an immediate threat to civilization. No

To dismantle the system that sustains civilization is very difficult and takes time, but we are achieving it, bit by bit. The complex and fascinating task of inventing a new order to replace it is long.