Religious Reform

Famous quotes containing the words religious and/or reform:

    “We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper. At any meeting of politicians ... how impertinent it would be to quote from the Bible! how pertinent to quote from a newspaper or from the Constitution!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “He reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shot-gun, maybe, but he didn’t know no other way.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)