Controversies Quotes

If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Controversies are a package deal in this industry. You just have to understand that and accept it.