Radical

Famous quotes containing the word radical:

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

“Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“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 ... of his head.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)