‘Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer…’
It is one of Giorgia Meloni’s favourite quotes and it comes from G. K. Chesterton.
In a similar vein, she regards herself and her party as owing more to the late British conservative philosopher Roger Scruton than to the revolutionary socialist Mussolini.
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