Famous quotes containing the words political and/or reforms:
“Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in Education.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)