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"The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices."
"A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation."
"Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself."
"We need a revival in the country,” Paul said. “We need another Great Awakening with tent revivals of thousands of people saying, 'reform or see what's going to happen if we don't reform.'"
"The lunatic fringe in all reform movements."
"I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context."
"All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing."
"Reform, like charity, must begin at home."
"I think in 2012 one of the primary issues that will get a lot of discussion will be comprehensive tax reform."
"Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there."
"I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform."
"There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation."
"I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace."
"What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care]."
"[T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up."
"It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world."
"It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution."
"My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform."
"Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life."
"It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone."
