Argument Quotes

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.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

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.

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.

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny.

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.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.

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.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

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.