The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
No true reform has ever come to pass Unchallenged by a liar and an ass.
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.
You can't jam change down the American people's throat.
The right is so reactionary it goes nowhere.
It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation.
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
There are people and interests that do not want change. It is not in their interest for this system to change.
The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.
