This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.
The best way of realising our high ideals is to show that we have an alternative in government that is credible, that is radical, and is electable - is neither a pale imitation of what the Tories offer nor is it the route to being a party of permanent protest rather than a party of government.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.