Argument Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this…

— Wole Soyinka

It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of…

— Thomas Jefferson

We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon…

— Charles F. Haanel

When people say, 'From first principles... ' to start their argument, what they mean is that they wish to assume as few things as…

— Bryan Johnson

There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in…

— Pope Leo XIII

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral…

— Edmund Yates

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“I seek not to instruct but only to lead, to point out and describe what I see. I claim no other right than that…

— Edmund Husserl

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular…

— Herodotus

Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not…

— Epictetus

We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other…

— Marcel Proust