Argument Quotes

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there.

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs, and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave, he bought me three wedding rings already!

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation.

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

I will listen to any argument put to me.

My life is my argument.

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.