Who said “People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, -- that reform consists in…”?

“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”

“In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.”

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”

“You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.”

“A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.”

“Good government is the outcome of private virtue.”

“Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.”

“Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.”

“It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.”

“A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.”

“All progress is experimental.”