The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong. If the Government or majorities think an individual is right, no one will interfere with him; but when agitators talk against the things considered holy, or when radicals criticise, or satirize the political gods, or question the justice of our laws and institutions, or pacifists talk against war, how the old inquisition awakens, and ostracism, the excommunication of the church, the prison, the wheel, the torture-chamber, the mob, are called to suppress the free expression of thought.
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My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals)
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Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.
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We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
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A conservative is a worshipper of dead radicals.
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Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.
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Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
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