I'm not any kind of social reformer.
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.
Ultimately, success is going to be up to the reformers, just like in Iraq. It's going to require Iraqis, the will of Iraqis to succeed. I understand that. And that's why our strategy is to give them the tools necessary to defend themselves and help them defend themselves; in this case right now mainly in Baghdad, but as well around the country.
Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.
The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.
The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts
It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.
We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!
It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.
conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.
Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary effect on my mind. If every year of my life, every month of the year, I had lived with reformers and crusaders I should be, by this time, a fanatic. As it is I have had such varied things to do, I have had so many different contacts that I am not even very much of a crank.
There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!
