Political Extremes Quotes

Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.

These four mongrels are supposed to be our defense against Communism and the extremes of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East.

Our Presidents have ranged from the disgraceful to the heroic, but almost none of them were actually normal human beings.

Too often, we say that the Left is wrong but well-intentioned. Some are. But most simply want government to control other people's lives, and they believe in Stalinistic methods to achieve that goal.

We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.

I am nearly broken down with labor and anxiety. I know not how to meet the present emergency, or with what weapons to beat down the Northern and Southern follies, now raging in equal extremes.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

People at the political extremes have an advantage over the rest of us. Only they seem to know exactly who and what is wrong with America and precisely what policies and programs should be adopted to fix it.

Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists believe that it is possible to socialize everything without tyranny.

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

Left-wingers and right-wingers come together when they become extreme enough. The Nazi Party was called National Socialism, very similar to Stalin's Communism, with the addition of 'the Fatherland.'

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

I think that contradictions, unless they're understood, unless they're analyzed, unless they're thoughtfully probed, unless people have a sense of what those contradictions mean - there's just as much of a chance that they'll move into embracing fascism as there is that they'll move into a more radical conception of democracy itself.

The far right and the far left can be equally insane.

The politically correct illiberal left far too often side with the extremists.

Despite the forces pulling politicians to the extremes, Americans must remember that the United States is not Europe. The American political tradition is pragmatic and centrist.

In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.

I will do everything to make sure you never have reason again to vote for extremes.

There are no modern successful societies that do not deal with the issues raised by Populists and Fabianists but also avoid going to one of these extremes. The modern battle for power in democartic socities is between Populism and Fabianism.

Trump and Bernie Sanders are different sides of the same coin.

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

Americans are properly Britons. They have the manners, habits, and ideas of Britons; and have been accustomed to a similar form of government. But Britons never could bear the extremes, either of monarchy or republicanism. Some of their Kings have aimed at despotism; but always failed. Repeated efforts have been made towards democracy, and they equally failed.

I am sure that all politicians seek the home connection with the voter. But [Margaret Thatcher] carried it to extremes.