Famous quotes containing the words religious and/or reform:
“When holy and devout religious men
Are at their beads, tis much to draw them thence,
So sweet is zealous contemplation.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a sound currency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)