Some quotations from American conservative author and commentator William F Buckley Jr (1925-2008) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W…. seem relevant here:

The so-called conservative, uncomfortably disdainful of controversy, seldom has the energy to fight his battles, while the radical, so often a member of the minority, exerts disproportionate influence because of his dedication to his cause.

"God and Man at Yale", 1951

Liberalism cannot sustain our civilization on the little it has to offer. It is sustaining the majority of our intellectuals, but that proves easier than holding together the world.

"Up from Liberalism", 2nd ed, 1968

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks, and extremists this side of the giggle house.

"On the Right", 1967

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Mike Buchanan

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