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)