A Quote by Frank I. Cobb
This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be a graver menace to liberty than radicalism bellowing the empty phrases of the soapbox demagogue.
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The disorder, uncertainty, and strife of a revolution make citizens yearn for stable authority, or they turn to radicalism.
Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.
German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
The Iranian state sponsors radicalism.
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.
Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
Liberalism doesn't speak to ideals. Radicalism does.
The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians give primacy to an abstract liberty. Conservatives, knowing that "liberty inheres in some sensible object," are aware that true freedom can be found only within the framework of a social order, such as the constitutional order of these United States. In exalting an absolute and indefinable "liberty" at the expense of order, the libertarians imperil the very freedoms they praise.
What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism.
Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.
A real possibility exists that we will be forced to confront, contain, and ultimately defeat radicalism and al-Qaeda alone, or at least with far fewer allies in the region than we had before.
There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.
Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.
To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately.
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