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Reform Quotes - Page 9

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.95

For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.327, Random House

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

"Annals of Public Policy" by Atul Gawande, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2009.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.287, The Minerva Group, Inc.

One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so as to secure greater elasticity in the forms of currency available for trade and to prevent the limitations of law from operating to increase the embarrassment of a financial panic.

George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.191, e-artnow sro

The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.

William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.100, Ludwig von Mises Institute

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.190, e-artnow

Reform, that we may preserve.

Debate on the First Reform Bill, March 2, 1831.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

Rebecca Harding Davis (2016). “Life in the Iron-Mills”, p.21, Lulu.com