All reactionaries are paper tigers. Mao Zedong
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. Franklin D Roosevelt
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. Evelyn Waugh
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. R G Collingwood
By ‘radical,’ I understand one who goes too far; by ‘conservative,’ one who does not go far enough; by ‘reactionary,’ one who won’t go at all. Woodrow Wilson
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead. Theodore Roosevelt
All adventure is now reactionary. William F Buckley, Jr
Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands. Robert Conquest