Quotes About Reform

The French had shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world. In that very short space of time they had completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures. Burke, speech in the House of Commons (1790)

I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that any time there's a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.

We must have a program to learn the way out of prison.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

There were two keys to securing sexual rights for women. The first was to reform the marriage laws, which gave husbands almost absolute authority over their wives. Marriage-free-lovers insisted-should be a voluntary and equal association between two people who shared a spiritual affinity.

Freelovers vehemently denied the state had any right to intervene in the sexual arrangements of consenting adults. They focused on empowering the weakest and most abused partner in sex: the woman. There were two keys to securing sexual rights for women. The first was to reform the marriage laws, which gave husbands almost absolute authority over their wives. Marriage-free-lovers insisted-should be a voluntary and equal association between two people who shared a spiritual affinity.

a man who has the strength of character to leave off when he has only ruined others, is a reformed character.

After 20 years on the bench I have concluded that federal drug laws are a disaster. It is time to get the government out of drug enforcement.

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

Cellatlar?n?n ipine ko?up idam edilece?ine, insan ya?am?n?n ve iyi ?eylerin korunmas? için bir yasa yarat.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

Ten thousand grateful people jammed Sunday's enormous tabernacle to hear him announce the death of liquor and reveal the advent of an earthly paradise. "The reign of tears is over," Sunday proclaimed. "The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent.

There has been a change in attitude, though.

The men and women pray separately," the Saudi observed archly. "Much to the dismay of more liberal Jews." "Perhaps we can change that." "Shwaya, shwaya," said Gabriel.

We have to change, Rafiq." "Islam is the answer!" "Islam is the problem, habibi.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

If a better politics were in the direct and obvious interest of the old, wealthy and powerful, it would already exist.

The essence of the iron law of oligarchy, this particular facet of the vicious circle, is that new leaders overthrowing old ones with promises of radical change bring nothing but more of the same.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Let's face it, our representative democracy has broken down. Our government primarily represents the big money boys and stacks the deck against reform movements. Playing only by the system's rules limits you.

Dear Admiral Rickover, If you want to stop killing people, read this. Very respectfully, Dave Oliver Captain, US Navy