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"What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
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"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."
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"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."
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"In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort."
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"The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities."
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"The argument of the strongest is always the best."
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"Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument."
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"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."
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"Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time."
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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."
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"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous."
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"I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order."
Politics

"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."
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"Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good."
History

"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."
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