Quotes about Reform

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

Three dominant evils prevailed—clerical concubinage, simony, and corruption within the church.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Being socially retarded is like being mentally retarded, it arouses in others disgust and pity and the desire to torment and reform.

At first the solution was to build more prisons and cram more people into them, but that soon became prohibitively expensive. (Here Ed flicks through a few more slides.) Not only that, it resulted in platoons of prison graduates with professional-grade criminal skills they were more than willing to exercise once they were back in the outside world.

We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.

And as for the Pope, I refuse him as Christ's enemy, and antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Under Obamacare, rates are skyrocketing, and insurers are leaving the marketplace.