We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. (Davy Crockett)

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

Davy Crockett

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