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A conservative is not always a reactionary.
The spirit which made democratic Athens year by year bestow her highest offices on the patrician Periklês and the reactionary Phôkiôn(5) still lives in the democracies of Switzerland, alike in the Landesgemeinde of Uri and in the Federal Assembly at Bern.
And it was a Parliament of Henry the Sixth which passed the most reactionary measure which any Parliament ever did pass, that by which the qualification for a county elector was narrowed to those freeholders whose estates were of the yearly value of forty shillings(58).
The complaint which it makes is well worth notice, and shows the reactionary tendencies of the time.
On the other hand whole fields of industry were arbitrarily closed to honest and capable folk by the absurd restrictions imposed for the sole benefit of corporations, which, when full allowance has been made for the good they did, and when full credit has been given for the service they rendered by standing in the breach at the critical moment, were, after all, thoroughly reactionary in their tendency, bent, as they were, upon stifling healthy competition whenever possible, and inclined to look upon any new invention as a crime against their craft mysteries.
"[16] Chesterton protests against being regarded as a mere obstructionist and reactionary in such language as the following: I do not propose (like some of my revolutionary friends) that we should abolish the public schools.
This chasm is no doubt greater in Germany, where the Catholic and Protestant churches are State institutions and identified with reactionary elements, than it is in our own country, where there is fortunately no Church, but many churches, all equally free to adapt themselves to changing conditions and to prove themselves useful to society in their own way.
Trudeau also pointed out that not many people were calling his comic strip "liberal" during its early years: "Indeed, when I first started syndication, Time called "Doonesbury" reactionary.
Some TV execs say their industry is reactionary.
Pols such as Newt Gingrich love Johnson's reactionary revisionism (he adores Nixon, despises Kennedy), but Johnson's books are riddled with errors (he says Edison invented the telephone), and the English think him a social-climbing loony.
Others take the occasion to recall, resentfully, how the "reactionary" show beat out Hair for a Tony, Newsday 's Linda Winer declares it "Broadway's equivalent of an extremely competent after-school special.
With the crusty, rural, reactionary Helms as a foil, Weld seems a moderate, cosmopolitan thinking man, above petty politics.
CWC opponents may muster the 34 votes needed to prevent a two-thirds ratification vote (thanks to the earnest but clueless Jesse Helms and two of the most rabidly reactionary institutions in politics today: the Wall Street Journal 's editorial page and a reptilian Cold War vestige called the Center for Security Policy).
Although the reactionary forces of Big Labor and Big Government won that battle, House Majority Leader Dick Armey was, of course, absolutely right to note again and again (and again) that the effect of a minimum wage is to deny workers the opportunity to contract for their services at a price employers are willing to pay.
Now he is deploying his pain in a legislatively less specific way, to try to show that he is not the reactionary bogeyman most people think he is.
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