Argument Quotes

The truth is always the strongest argument. (Sophocles)
The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter. View quote
Winston Churchill
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it. View quote
Dale Carnegie
The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Silence is argument carried out by other means. View quote
Che Guevara
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. View quote
James Russell Lowell
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. View quote
Jascha Heifetz
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. (Thomas Hardy)
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. View quote
Colin Powell
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. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
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. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument. View quote
Newt Gingrich
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. View quote
Gertrude Stein
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. View quote
John Dryden
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. View quote
Rebecca West
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. View quote
George Santayana
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. (Omar Khayyám)
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. View quote
Jane Austen
The argument of the stronger man is always the best. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. View quote
Louis Brandeis
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. View quote
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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