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Reform Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
- Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
- Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is…
- Every reform was once a private opinion.
- The religions are obsolete when the reforms do not proceed from them.
- The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what…
- Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of…
More Reform Quotes
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
- Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform.… — Julian Assange
- I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going… — David Axelrod
- Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character… — Joe Baca
- I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and… — Michele Bachmann
- I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in… — Michele Bachmann
- An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the… — Clara Barton
- Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin
- I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. — Jeff Bingaman
- My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business… — Tony Blair
- Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that… — Barbara Boxer