Argument Quotes

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to make it interesting but the truth of it is that we get along so well we've never had an argument.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.