“Courage without conscience is a wild beast. Patriotism without principle is the prejudice of birth, the animal attachment to place.”
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“The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.”
— Robert G. Ingersoll
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“Courage without conscience is a wild beast. Patriotism without principle is the prejudice of birth, the animal attachment to place.”
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