Every reform, however necessary, will
by weak minds be carried to an excess
which will itself need reforming.
?Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A conservative is someone
who believes in reform.
But not now.
?Mort Sahl
Reform is born of need, not pity.
No vital movement of the
people has worked down, for good
or evil; fermented, instead, carried
up the heaving, cloggy mass.
?Rebecca Harding Davis
One of the greatest delusions in the
world is the hope that the evils in this
world are to be cured by legislation.
?Thomas Brackett Reed
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope.
He wants to reform the world. When he is
seventy he still wants to reform
the world, but he knows he can't.
?Clarence Darrow
Cautious, careful people, always casting
about to preserve their reputations . . .
can never effect a reform.
?Susan B. Anthony
Every reform was once a private opinion, and
when it shall be a private opinion again,
it will solve the problem of the age.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every reformation must have its victims.
You can't expect the fatted calf to share
the enthusiasm of the angels
over the prodigal's return.
?Saki
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the
reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
?Voltaire
