Restoration-Destruction

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale. (Thomas Carlyle)

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Public calamity is a mighty leveller. (Edmund Burke)

If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even, - for that is the seat of sympathy, - he forthwith sets about reforming the world. (Thoreau)