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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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"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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"We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate."
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"There's always merit to having a debate."
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"The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though."
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"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."
Inspirational
"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future."
Concern
"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
People
"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
"The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour."
Collaboration
"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."
Courage
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