“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
“But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.”
“How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?”
“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.”
“The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day”
“Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.”