Quotes About Reform

The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

If you saw yourself with the eyes of justice you'd change your lifestyle .

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

Government Philosophy: If it ain't broke, fix it 'till it is.

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

there is nothing so bad as a reformed anything, be it gambler, drunkard, or lecher. They are aye harder on folks wi' their vices than someone without them would be." Sir

The situation in which a monarch or city council controlled the pace of reform came to be known as Erastianism, after Thomas Erastus, a learned physician in Heidelberg who, during a dispute in that city in the late 1550s between various Protestant factions, urged Frederick III of the Palatinate to pacify the situation by taking control of the church into his own hands.

We can sense the heart of Luther's concern about God if we begin with his public efforts at reform—with the Ninety-Five Theses that he displayed in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. The first of the ninety-five says simply: "When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance." The last four theses carry us even closer to his main concern: 92.

Their surprise was compounded by the fact that these new churches were separated not only by geography but also by subtle, but important, differences in Christian teaching that almost no one had noticed so long as their attention had been fixed on reforming the whole Western church.

When Satan is released for a brief time at the end of the millennium, his 1000-year prison sentence has not reformed his character. He has not changed. And mankind has not changed either.

The party did not bother to even produce a new platform, for the first time since 1856.

We face today an especially sinister emergence, not just more police violence, mass incarceration, and a death penalty, but the rise of the U.S. "carceral" or "penal state." Here

It is not just solitary confinement, however, that has exposed mass incarceration as generative of torture. Prison overcrowding and unwillingness of the U.S. prison system to commit resources for its burgeoning elderly, who are aging behind bars, also create conditions of torture. Law

Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does nothing to solve the grave realities of the federal government's insatiable appetite for spending and its inability to reform itself.

In plain English, the immense investment of tax dollars in a vast government-run educational infrastructure is buying young people a poor education.

There is also no doubt that major market-oriented reforms and overhauls are required immediately to address unsustainable federal health-care entitlements and avoid the devastating economic and societal consequences awaiting younger people and future generations from decades of extravagance, political manipulation, and rampant bureaucratic intervention in the private health-care system.

It's easier to radicalize an institution than it is to radicalize yourself