For men who hold beliefs as vital it would not be creditable to either side to put them easily by.

No, we do not ask them to forget themselves, but to respect one another--an entirely greater and more honourable principle.
On neutral ground a man is not called on to abjure his flag; rather he and his flag are in sanctuary.
VIII When we find the national idea touches life at every point, we begin to realise how frequent the call is to defend it without warning.

It is not that men directly raise the idea purposely to reject it, but that their habit of life, to which they expect all to conform, is unconsciously assuming that our ruling principle can have no place now or in the future.

Their assumption that the _status quo_ cannot be changed will be the cause of most collision at first; and we must be quietly ready with the counter-assumption, stand for the old idea and justify it.

We must realise, too, that the number of people who have definite, strong, well-developed views against ours are comparatively small.