I love peace, but next to peace…

Above all things I love peace, but next to peace I love a fight, and I believe the next best thing to peace is a theological fight.

— A. C. Dixon, in the Ecumenical Missionary Conference, New York 1900, I (New York, 1900), p. 364, quoted by George M. Marsden, Fundamentalism and American Culture, Oxford University Press, (Oxford, 2006) 101.