» Add Quotes to Your Site - Quote Generatoradd quote of the day, random quotes or by topic (e.g. funny quotes) Quote DB :: Talking :: Debate Search in this category Quote Author Rating Rate "The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." Oscar Wilde "Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle." Thomas Jefferson "When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler." Al Gore "Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege." Bill Clinton "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong." Samuel Goldwyn "Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate." Hubert H. Humphrey "Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product." Christopher Lasch "I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them." Richard Nixon "The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right." Jill Ruckleshaus "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it." George Bernard Shaw "The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions." Plato "If you can't convince them, confuse them." Harry Truman "The absent are easily refuted." C.S. Lewis "Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side." Baltasar Gracian "Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." Alexander Hamilton "To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it." Henry Kissinger "I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job." Margaret Thatcher "I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." Margaret Thatcher "Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them." Frank Tyger "The argument is at an end." Saint Augustine 1 2 Next >> Browse Debate quotes by Author: Al Gore Alexander Hamilton Baltasar Gracian Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Franklin Bill Clinton Chris Bowyer Christopher Lasch Christopher Morley C.S. Lewis Dale Carnegie Dave Barry Dudley Malone Edgar Watson Howe Edmund Burke Frank Tyger George Bernard Shaw George Santayana Harry Truman Henry Kissinger Hubert H. Humphrey Jeseph Joubert Jill Ruckleshaus Josh Billings Laurence Peter Margaret Thatcher Oscar Wilde Plato Richard Nixon Saint Augustine Samuel Goldwyn Thomas Jefferson Wayne Dyer