"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."

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"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."

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"Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Argument, Help

"When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Argument, May, Worth

"We must reinforce argument with results."

Booker T. Washington, American Educator

Argument, Results

"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."

Robert Benchley, American Comedian

Argument, Arguments, Being, Fact, Party

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

George Henry Lewes, English Philosopher

Argument,

"I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message."

Anthony Holden, British Journalist

Argument, Blame, Old, Popular

"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it."

Andre Maurois, French Writer

Argument, Opinion

"Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public."

David Herbert Donald, American Historian

Argument, Public, Result, Talk

"Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice."

Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

Argument, Arguments, Logic, Malice

"I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all."

Richard Attenborough, English Actor

Argument, Reason

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"It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'."

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"The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands."

God

"No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right."

Man

"Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next."

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"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful."

Habit

"True greatness consists in being great in little things."

Greatness

"For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame."

End

"A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock."

Character

"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."

Fire

"Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil."

Heart