RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.
There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.
Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
We need our radicals.
You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.
Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.
German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.