Famous quotes containing the words north american, north, american and/or reform:
“The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.”
—Edmund H. North (19111990)
“Lets face it. Lets talk sense to the American people. Lets tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains, that we are now on the eve of great decisions, not easy decisions.”
—Adlai Stevenson (19001965)
“There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of expediency. There is no such thing as sliding up- hill. In morals the only sliders are backsliders.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)