Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Reform that you may preserve.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Reform is not a period of retreat.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

Reform or die.

Reform starts here.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

This government has come not to manage but to transform.

Everyone wants change. Donald is the only one that can deliver it. We should not be satisfied with stagnation.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

If you want change, you have to offer change.