We are reformers in spring and summer. In autumn and winter we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, conservatives at night. Reform is affirmative; conservatism, negative. Conservatism goes for...

We are reformers in spring and summer. In autumn and winter we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, conservatives at night. Reform is affirmative; conservatism, negative. Conservatism goes for comfort; reform for truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are reformers in spring and summer. In autumn and winter we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, conservatives at night. Reform is affirmative; conservatism, negative. Conservatism goes for comfort; reform for truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are reformers in spring and summer. In autumn and winter we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, conservatives at night. Reform is affirmative; conservatism, negative. Conservatism goes for comfort; reform for truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson