Forefathers Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “We cannot reform our forefathers.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forefathers Reform
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either. — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain. — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Devolutionary reform will not provide a factory, a machine or jobs, build a school, train a doctor or put a pound on pensions. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
These are people who haven't gone through the legal means to becoming citizens like our forefathers did. They want all the benefits but none… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza,… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
Our forefathers looked upon nature with more reverence and horror, before the world was enlightened by learning and philosophy, and loved to astonish themselves… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
