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"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."
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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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"The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind."
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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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"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
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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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"But, also, before I even go on the Medicare prescription drug debate, I always tell the folks in rural Illinois, and I represent 30 counties south of Springfield down to Indiana and Kentucky, that in this bill is the best rural package for hospitals ever passed."
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"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
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"There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four."
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"Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot."
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"Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs."
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Explore more quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey
"Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man."
Freedom
"This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us."
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"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future."
Concern
"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
"The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one."
Leadership
"The President is the people's lobbyist."
People
"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."
Life
"To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed."
Civil Rights
"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
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