"A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head."
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Radio Address to the New York Herald Tribune Forum (26 October 1939)
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