A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up … — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Gilbert K. ChestertonWriter · English · 1874 – 1936

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