Quotes about Reform

We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation you begin with families.

The tone and tendency of liberalism...is to attack the institutions of the country under the name of reform and to make war on the manners and customs of the people under the pretext of progress.

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

The failure of Lateran V was the prelude to the Reformation, which shattered the unity of the Christian West and set in motion the dynamics that eventually led to the European wars of religion. Failures of reform carry a high cost.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Reforms should begin at home and stay there.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.