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“Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in education, of State medicine and the rest, is developing into the slave, leaving the rich man apart and free. All industrial civilization is clearly moving towards the re-establishment of the Servile State.”

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Book:Essays of a Catholic

Source: Essays of a Catholic

“Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.”

Men Wisdom Humanity Politics Economy Successful Environment Originals Reform Organized Liberalism Permit Capability Innate Becoming Successful

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“We must adopt reforms which will expand the range of opportunities for all Americans. We can fulfill the American dream only when each person has a fair chance to fulfill his own dreams. This means equal voting rights, equal employment opportunity and new opportunities for expanded ownership, because in order to be secure in their human rights, people need access to property rights.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970

“The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.”

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Author:Arianna Huffington

“Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.”

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Book:Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Works of Melville

Source: Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Works of Melville

“If we don't get reform in campaign financing, then we can write this country off.”

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Author:Frances Farenthold

“'Excessive regulation in the banking reform bill will destroy a substantial part of our bond-distributing machinery. Can anyone expect that a step of this kind will improve the quality of our long-term investments?'”

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Author:Barry Ritholtz

“This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.”

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Author:Milton Mayer

“A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.”

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Author:John Stuart Mill