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"I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."
Dave Barry
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
Jeseph Joubert
"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
"The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right."
Jill Ruckleshaus
"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."
Josh Billings
"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
"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."
C.S. Lewis
"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
"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
"Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle."
Thomas Jefferson
"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
"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."
Baltasar Gracian
"The argument is at an end."
Saint Augustine
"The absent are easily refuted."
C.S. Lewis
"Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege."
Bill Clinton
"Fear not those who argue but those who dodge."
Dale Carnegie
"The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it."
Dale Carnegie
"Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so."
Benjamin Franklin
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