conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles. — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes — George Soros Copy Share Image
[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Missing from the national conversation are voices of pro-immigration reformers and civil rights leaders, who can speak on behalf of those who… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
There's a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“To divide life into areas of sacred and secular, letting our devotions take care of the former while becoming secular reformers during… — Henry R. Van Til Copy Share Image
In a powerful, divine dream, I saw 50 million people on a "Royal Journey of Hope" who were looking and yearning for… — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image
“He was the first of the true Anastatosantes of the modern world, as only an English-speaking man could be—of the most thorough,… — George Smith Copy Share Image
A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say "Brothers, if you are fit… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Some eminent witnesses of God's truth believe that before the downfall of Antichrist [which virtually all Reformers construed to be Romanism], England… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“Knox could not fail to see what was so patent: many books of the German reformers may have come in his way;… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Legislative action will never bring genuine campaign-finance reform. Consultants will prove endlessly inventive in gaming whatever system the reformers can devise so… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“These self-styled reformers in the present-day Muslim countries may be recognized by their pride in what they should rather be ashamed of,… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
I am delighted to be at the heart of this team of radical reformers in Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nick Boles and… — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted… — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image