Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

I'm a radical, and I always have been.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

The American people will always be progressive as well as conservative.

These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin.

Once in a while, we need the hard Left to pipe up.

Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

I believe that being conservative means you try to get in to the middle of the fight and try to solve the problem.

Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s.

Opposition to social change is but one pillar of contemporary Republicanism.

Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

Liberal idiocy surrounds us all. It threatens to destroy the values and lifestyles that millions of us cherish.

I often think that the Greatest Generation gave birth to the Crappiest Generation, the stinky hippies with their slacktivism and demand for government welfare in the name of freedom.

The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That's fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.

The military is no place for the left's latest social experiment.

My grandma was very traditional, but she herself is a rebel of that culture.

I think a lot of things have become associated with the Right. For example, an unapologetic commitment to progress and modernity is now almost always associated with neo-conservatism whereas it traditionally used to be associated with left-wing thinking and moving society forward.

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

It's always been young people at the forefront of any revolution.

I think our societies - to certain extent, of course, and to different degrees, but almost with no exception - have always been struggling to come to terms with archaic traditions.

I would like to do a story where the country found itself a presidential candidate who actually will get elected preaching traditional values and then sets out to enforce them, where it actually comes down to the fact that reality as we know it may not be as etched in stone as we tell ourselves it is.