As a matter of fact, the typical extremist of this kind differs from the practical reformer, from the public man who strives in practical fashion for decency, not at all in superior morality, but in inferior sense.
Roosevelt asserts that the difference between an extremist and a practical reformer lies not in morality, but in common sense.
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