The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and began seriously threatening our own shores and safety, it became much easier to denounce any anti-war agitation and argument as inherently irresponsible and unpatriotic.
I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.
Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
I've never bought the argument that people are apathetic about politics.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
The question of one versus two species of African elephants isn't about settling an arcane DNA argument; it's about life or death for these majestic, extraordinary creatures.
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
We must reinforce argument with results.