American people Quote by Gertrude Atherton

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must…

— Havelock Ellis

“To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the world discover…

— Marquis de Sade

“Baltimore's slogan was 'The City that Reads', but like the rest of its one million or so inhabitants Lori knew that was a pipedream;…

— Stephen Leather

Our political system encourages that. We don't have proportional representation. There's little renewal in our political class and it's always the same faces. There's…

— Emmanuel Macron

“It seemed to numerous voters that, thanks to the growing power of the ACLU, criminals were beginning to have more rights than the victims.…

— Fannie Flagg

Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary effect on…

— Rheta Childe Dorr

We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

— George W. Bush

“At a deeper psychological level, the reformers' ideas of salvation introduced a major change in the way people saw their world. They could no…

— Fiona MacDonald

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

— Emma Goldman

“All of the Reformers agreed among themselves and with Rome on the point that the Supper lies at the heart of the person of…

— Michael S. Horton

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son…

— Henry David Thoreau

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change;…

— Rod Blagojevich

“Luther, the hero of Worms, the champion of the sacred rights of conscience, was, in words, the most violent, but in practice, the least…

— Philip Schaff

“This is perhaps as good a place as any to point out that what distinguishes many reformers from those who cannot accept their proposals…

— Henry Hazlitt

Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone…

— Bertrand Russell