“ Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care. ”
- Lincoln Chafee- Copy
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“ There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world. ”
- Oscar Hammerstein- Copy
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“ Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation; to publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates; and to bear the consequences. ”
- Susan B. Anthony- Copy
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“ Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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“ Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't. ”
- Clarence Darrow- Copy
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“ Tax reform means "Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree.". ”
- Russell Long- Copy
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“ Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. ”
- Elizabeth Smart- Copy
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“ I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
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“ People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. ”
- Norman Douglas- Copy
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“ People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, — that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. ”
- John Jay Chapman- Copy
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“ That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen. ”
- Michael Harrington- Copy
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“ The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. ”
- Alexis De Tocqueville- Copy
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“ Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us. Reform, that you may preserve! ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
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“ Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. ”
- John B. S. Haldane- Copy
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“ Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue. ”
- James Cardinal Gibbons- Copy
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“ It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ The way you describe it, it wouldn't make any sense,... We want to reform the system that is good for everybody.... We are not trying to silence anyone. ”
- Arnold Schwarzenegger- Copy
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“ You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. ”
- Charles Bukowski- Copy
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“ A reformer is a man who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat. ”
- James J. Walker- Copy
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