“Anything worth having is worth fighting for.”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer
Source: Heaven, Texas
“I’d rather fight than switch. It’s worth fighting.”
Twitter post https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1038771343918096385 (9 September 2018) <br class="br">2010s, 2018
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