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Opponents Quotes - Page 7

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881”, p.244, Cambridge University Press