There's always merit to having a debate.

There's always merit to having a debate. That is the point of the whole (educational) process, putting out opposing viewpoints.

View the whole scene, with critic judgment scan, And then deny him merit if you can. Where he falls short, 'tis Nature's fault alone Where he succeeds, the merit's all his own.

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.

[Critics of the reforms are unlikely to be assuaged, and they will raise many of their concerns again when the reform bill returns to the Commons in October before heading to the Lords. Its architects might do well to reflect on another quote, from one of Woodrow Wilson's contemporaries.] There's nothing wrong with change, ... if it's in the right direction.

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.