I am in favour of courage-who is ever not in the abstract?-but not of treating it as a substitute for wisdom, as I fear we are currently in danger of doing. (Roy Jenkins)

I am in favour of courage-who is ever not in the abstract?-but not of treating it as a substitute for wisdom, as I fear we are currently in danger of doing.

Roy Jenkins

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