America is the longest argument in the world.
The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.
I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.
The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.
In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.
I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say. "
Logic is justly considered the basis of all other sciences, even if only for the reason that in every argument we employ concepts taken from the field of logic, and that ever correct inference proceeds in accordance with its laws.
Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.
Without argument the species would parish.
When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.
Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.