Quotes About Reform

A vast amount of "social reform" consists in just this operation. The consequence is that those who have gone astray, being relieved from Nature's fierce discipline, go on to worse, and that there is a constantly heavier burden for the others to bear. Who

Social improvement is not to be won by direct effort. It is secondary, and results from physical or economic improvements. That

The thousands of black bodies incarcerated on death row are one legacy of lynching. The highest rates of execution in the United States can be correlated with those states where lynching was most prevalent. America's practice of lynching morphs rather than dies.

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves.

I know, and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backward.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

T]here is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order."17

Justice William 0. Douglas once told President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Any government bureau more than ten years old should be abolished, because after that it becomes more concerned with its image than with its mission.

have tried to show the scale of the problem and suggest some actions our Government should take to help us out of our current economic quagmire. These have included giving our bureaucrats a short, sharp shock with the imposition of a four-day week; scrapping corporation tax; bringing in a False Claims Act; cutting the cost of politics; protecting our national assets; taking on the pensions and unit trust industry and standing up to the EU.

What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

They had none of the modern things that we have today, and yet they turned their world upside down,

The Iron Law of Liberalism states that any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs.

So what are people actually referring to when they talk about "deregulation"? In ordinary usage, the word seems to mean "changing the regulatory structure in a way that I like.

Of all the English-speaking people in the seventeenth century, the Quakers moved farthest toward the idea of equality between the sexes.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God.

The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion.

He who reforms, God assists.