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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

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Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 475 (1820)
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See Nietzsche (1882).
 
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Indeed, to keep this campaign on the highest possible level worthy of its significance, I have been tempted to make a proposal to our Republican friends: that if they would stop telling lies about us, we would stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-09-19), “The New England Tradition,” City Hall, Springfield, Massachusetts
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A favorite quip of Stevenson's.
 
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