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"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."
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"... the courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the 'other side'..."
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"Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11:Clever of him to have spotted that (his favorite put-down is the preface 'Turning to the facts...') and brave of him to have taken such a lonely position. As he rightly insists, our disagreements are not really political."
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"I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side."
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"What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities."
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"If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions."
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"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
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"It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle."
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"Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results."
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"The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information."
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"I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate."
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"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."
Business
"I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university."
Politics
"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
People
"Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper."
War
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
Friendship
"American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon."
Liberal
"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future."
Concern
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
Respect
"There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late."
Leadership
"To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed."
Civil Rights
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