"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
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"Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals."
"We need our radicals."
"Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism."
"What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism."
"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."