Top Argument Quotes
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.
Richard Attenborough
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.
William E. Gladstone
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
Hosea Ballou
I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
Jonathan Mayhew
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
Mason Cooley
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Herbert Spencer 
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One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
David F. Houston
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The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George Carlin
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There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
Elliott Smith
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Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, "Who do you think you are?"
Ray Combs
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If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.
William Godwin
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Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Robert South
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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.
Joseph Rotblat
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