Alter

Famous quotes containing the word alter:

    Whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it’s foundation on such principles & organising it’s powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
    That it can alter all the course of kind.
    Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    I think we ought to be able to alter the whole system—but not by bullying, not because one lot wants what the other has got.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)