Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
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I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo your time has come -- and gone. It's time for change in America.
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It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.
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It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
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[The FCC's defenders say the agency is just one actor on a multiplayer stage dominated by Congress, the White House and industry.] The FCC is in a very difficult position, ... They are trying to deregulate a regulated industry in a way that creates new competition and doesn't lead to new regulation of the new industry. Frankly, the FCC is trying to untie this Gordian knot one strand at a time.
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
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I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten
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If something makes you cry; you have to do something about it. That's the difference between politics and guilt. I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men
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America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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