Who said “So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even…”?

“I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.”

“Radical simply means ''grasping things at the root.''”

“The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.”

“To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.”

“The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination.”

“One cannot really be Catholic & grown-up.”

“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”

“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”

“Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.”

“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”

“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”