"Man is always ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him."
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Quoted in Reader's Digest, (February 1963)
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Paul Eldridge
Paul Eldridge (5 May 1888 – 26 July 1982) was an American poet, novelist, short story writer and teacher.
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