Argument Quotes

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It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself… — Walter Cronkite
There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration… — Will Rogers
They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it… — Will Rogers
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality. — Nathanael Emmons
Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument. — Judith Martin
The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century),… — Michael Shermer
I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad enough that people… — Judy Woodruff
Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do is to hitch… — Erwin W. Lutzer
I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well. — David Hare
One of the most important virtues of the American character is our ability to approach the complexities that life presents us with common sense and… — Dick Gephardt
While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is… — Richard R. Nelson
Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading Winter Arguments is… — Rosellen Brown
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation… — Janna Levin
I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that "some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of life. It is… — John Bolton
It is commonly said that if rational argument is so seldom the cause of conviction, philosophical apologists must largely be wasting their shot. The premise… — Austin Farrer
It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and… — Alan Woods
Love is a very compelling argument. — Brian Houston
Make no mistake, your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move… — Ryan Bingham
An argument which proves too much, proves nothing. — M. M. Mangasarian

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