Quotes About Debate

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.

Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.

There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

When your opponent sets up a straw man, set it on fire and kick the cinders around the stage. Don't worry about losing the Strawperson- American community vote.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

And while I at length debate and beate the bush, There shall steppe in other men and catch the burdes.

This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.

To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?

I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.

Opinions are a useless currency

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

Climate change is the mother of all hysterias of the Left

When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians, she said: "You got what to wear?".

No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.

Men argue nature acts.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

I never questioned Barack Obama's patriotism.