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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.
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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Added on 18-May-16 | Last updated 17-Oct-25
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Topics: attacks, cause, defense, good cause, meme, self-defeating, vulnerability, zeal
More quotes by Colton, Charles Caleb 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.
Added on 18-May-12 | Last updated 4-Jan-26
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Topics: attacks, lies, politics, Republicans, truth
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