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"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."
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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."
"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."
"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."
"The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent."
"I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously."
"We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate."
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"If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger."
"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea."
"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
"A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office."
"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."
"The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future."
"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."
"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end."
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