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The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. -- Ambrose Bierce
King Abdullah is a reformer. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
I'm not any kind of social reformer. -- Charles Kuralt
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo. -- Jose Bergamin
A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. -- Lydia M. Child
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. -- Walter Lippmann
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
I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement. -- Rick Perry
Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death. -- Ernestine Rose
And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.' -- Scott Walker
We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together. -- Warren Christopher
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. -- B. R. Ambedkar
I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind. -- Shawn Johnson
Pilates is my favorite meditative way to get in shape. I don't like the gym and I don't like running, so I just lay on my Pilates reformer. It's great. -- Lyndsy Fonseca
A great social reformer. -- George Bernard Shaw
Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes. -- E. W. Howe
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous. -- Thomas Jefferson
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. -- William Graham Sumner
The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer. -- Learned Hand
It is the first care of a reformer to prevent any future reformation. -- Edward Gibbon
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes -- George Soros
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. -- J. G. Holland
The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. -- Derrick Bell
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. -- Leo Tolstoy
Hillary Clinton called President Assad a "reformer". She called Assad a "different kind of leader". There's now 400,000 now dead...think about that. -- Chris Christie
When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace. -- Robert Frost
And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer. -- Scott Walker
A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim. -- Edward Gibbon
The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline. -- Ludwig von Mises
It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer. -- John McCain
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer. -- H. Norman Wright
What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer. -- Hillary Clinton
A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to fill some alleged 'need' or relieve some alleged distress. -- Henry Hazlitt
Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems. -- Ellen Key
You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer. -- A. Powell Davies
I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
George W. Bush has a new campaign slogan: "A reformer with results." I don't know what it means [but] I think it's better than his old campaign slogan: "A dumb guy with connections. -- David Letterman
There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing. -- Walter Lippmann
One cannot have any respect or regard for men who take the position of the reformer and then refuse to see the logical consequences of that position, let alone following them out in action. -- B. R. Ambedkar
We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer. -- Rod Blagojevich
History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it. -- John Buchan

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