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“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.”

People Has Beens Political Politics Liberty Nice Fairs Controversy Very Nice Involving Forged Nice People Summary

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.”

Has Beens Political Choices Careers Issues Candidates Controversy

Author:Claire McCaskill

“Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.”

Should School Political Taught Evolution Evidence Dna Fossils Controversy

Author:Carl Zimmer

“This fear of criticism displayed by the advocates of freedom of criticism cannot be attributed solely to craftiness. No, the majority of the Economists look with sincere resentment upon all theoretical controversies, factional disagreements, broad political questions, plans for organising revolutionaries, etc.”

Looks Political Plans Criticism Majority Revolutionary Etc Sincere Broads Resentment Economist Controversy Theoretical Disagreement Craftiness

Book:Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

Source: Izbrannye Proizvedenii͡a V Trekh Tomakh

“In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.”

Believe Political Individual I Believe Animal Strange Periods Controversy Obsessing

Book:The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature

Source: The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature

“The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.”

Country Bigs Political Water Plans Effects Cold Development Throwing Controversy Infrastructure Boston Cold Water

Author:Andrew Natsios

“Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise.”

Wells Political Sound Economy Judging Errors Enterprise Contradiction Resolve Interpretation Controversy Fury Deluded Political Economy

Author:David Harvey

“The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.”

Years Political Literature Belief Behinds Theory Scene Ultimate Lays Revolutionary Explanation Disposition Controversy

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution