Quotes About Debate

Lovers of Norfolk churches can never agree which is the best and I think one is either a Salle or a Cawston man.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

God! How men of letters are stupid.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have condemned him for these same truths.

But facts always convince, and another man's opinion rarely convinces.

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself. (on Craig Bellamy)

We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense.

Bernie Sanders is a crazy man.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.