“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.”
Sententiæ: The Citizen and the State
1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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