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Argument Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural…
- Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy…
- I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.
- 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…
- not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of…
- When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to…
- Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.
- Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear…
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- Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the… — Hosea Ballou
- Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. — Wendell Berry
- Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of… — Annie Besant
- But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws… — H. Rap Brown
- Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause… — Al Alvarez
- The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Know for a very short time, we have so many stuff in life that we dont really understand, for the fact that… — Unknown Author