Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative; conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. The Conservative

Conservatism is more candid to behold another's worth; reform more disposed to maintain and increase its own. The Conservative

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

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?