Walter Bagehot Quotes
Generally, an agitator is a rough man of the [Irish nationalist Daniel] O'Connell type, who says anything himself, and lets others say anything. "You peg into me and I will peg into you, and let us see which one will win," is his motto.
Walter Bagehot, 1826-1877, British Economist & Writer, Biographical Studies
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While this was a common attitude for years before, the horrors of World War II produced a general revulsion to war and an awareness that war between two nations spills over to other states in the region and in an era of globalization, effects countries in other parts of the world. So there has been a tendency to use diplomacy endlessly, even after "things have gone too far". Historically, when things reached that point, the parties did fight it out, and when one was weakened sufficiently, negotiations and diplomacy could then be fruitful.
"Extremists" as Flexner used the term were intellectual and philosophical extremists--at that time intellectual communists, fascists, atheists, libertarians, anarchists. In the 21st century, "extremists" tended to connote violence and terrorism. There were violent revolutionary communists, fascists and anarchists, but there were very few. Must were intellectual and philosophical advocates of the theories.
There were very few politicians who would dare to even unfavorably mention the KKK. Long however took them on directly.
TR was then a Lieutenant Colonel and the regiment he organized was an unusual combination of Ivy League College men, cowboys from the West, and Black Buffalo Soldiers.
Shortly after, he backed off the notion of having a bloodbath removing protesting students.
The leaders and their members were organizing Civil Rights protests and demonstrations in keys Southern communities. The Southern segregationists commonly referred to the protesters with these three terms. Hoover hated the Civil Rights organizations and many of their leaders and would not allow FBI agents to assure the safety of the demonstrators when they were beaten and brutalized by the Southern law enforcement officers and KKK members—often one and the same as Hoover knew ({637608}). He used the same terms describing the demonstrators as the Southerners did reflecting his biases and sympathies.
Walter Bagehot was a British journalist, businessman, and essayist, who wrote extensively about government, economics, literature and race.
