“A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.”
Mort Sahl
“Don't marry a man to reform him--that's what reform schools are for.”
Mae West
“It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. The Conservative”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own. The Conservative”
“They [conservatives] thought they were going to get somebody who would just be full-bore, unadulterated, hard-charging conservative. And this group, they are really sore [upset], they feel disillusioned, they feel despondent and some of them are livid. Now the question is, do they get over this or not?”
Charles Cook
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