“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
“Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. The Conservative”
“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”