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"You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it."
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"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."
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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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"We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it."
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"You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument."
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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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"The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically."
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"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."
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"They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date."
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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
History
"The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third."
Art
"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."
Time
"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
Man
"Injustice in the end produces independence."
Society
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
Wisdom
"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."
Family
"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
Man
"Society therefore is an ancient as the world."
Society
"To hold a pen is to be at war."
War
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