argument

1.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

- Jefferson, Thomas

2.

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

- Adams, George M.

3.

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

4.

When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.

- Cicero

5.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

- West, Rebecca

6.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

- James Harvey Robinson

7.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime.

- Poe, Edgar Allan

8.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

9.

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.

- Bronte, Charlotte

10.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

- Thatcher, Margaret

11.

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

- Robert Quillen

12.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

- James, William

13.

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

- Patten, Chris

14.

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

- Ambrose Bierce

15.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

- Harris, Sidney J.

16.

I cannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the most argumentative.

- Casa, Giovani della

17.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

- William G. McAdoo

18.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

- Che Guevara

19.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

- Cicero, Marcus T.