But I do not so well discover the reasons that could induce them, at the first feeble dawning of life in this country, to do all in their power to cast a cloud over it, and to prevent the least hope of our effecting the necessary reformations which are aimed at in our Constitution and in our national economy.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
He is sensible that his business is not to innovate, out to secure and to establish,-that reformations at this day are attempts at best of ambiguous utility.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
Confusion and unrest, war and reformations, give to great spirits a power which, when life is calmer, they might not attain.
"A Book of Quaker Saints"
Lucy Violet Hodgkin