He long ago learned to eschew the little turf-dances of human encounter.

-Allen, Henry Southworth
  Of Brent Scowcroft, National Security Council adviser to George Bush. In the Washington Post, 3  Jan.

And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, soTruth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

-Milton,John
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.