Every man Quote by E. W. Howe

The most agreeable thing in life is worthy accomplishment. It is not possible that the idle tramp is as contented as the farmers along…

— E. W. Howe

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none sweeter or…

— Charles Spalding Thomas

I was always a reformer. My father and mother were progressives, and they believed in the universal vote, vote for women, land reform, and…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

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

— Lydia M. Child

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

— Derrick Bell

The first generation of school reformers I talk about - nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher - they are true believers in…

— Dana Goldstein

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

— William Dean Howells

“The history of progress is a history of freaks.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and…

— Henry James

“Injustice is not allowed on my watch.”

— Abhijit Naskar