To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right. (William Ewart Gladstone)

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.

William Ewart Gladstone

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