Quotes About Debate

P.S. I still dunno if it's art. Go to Hell yourself.

Like the Roman fringe or the nocturnal plait, sweat is a sign. Of what? Of moral feeling. Everyone is sweating because everyone is debating something within himself.

With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so nimble in debate that even bright people sometimes felt embarrassingly tongue-tied in his presence.

Since critics found it hard to defeat him on intellectual grounds, they stooped to personal attacks.

This falling-out was to be more than personal, for the rift between Hamilton and Madison precipitated the start of the two-party system in America. The funding debate shattered the short-lived political consensus that had ushered in the new government. For the next five years, the political spectrum in America was defined by whether people endorsed or opposed Alexander Hamilton's programs.

It is unclear how closely Grant followed current affairs as the national debate over slavery broadened and intensified. Through the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state while other territories wrested from Mexico were left free to adopt slavery or not. In exchange, the North appeased the South by submitting to a strict new fugitive slave law that made many northerners feel like accomplices in the hated institution of their southern brethren.

Hamilton, back by August 13, dove into a debate that passionately engaged him: immigration. He opposed any attempt to restrict membership in Congress to native-born Americans or to stipulate a residency period before immigrants could qualify for it.

April 12, 1790, the House voted down Hamilton's assumption plan, thirty-one to twenty-nine, and two weeks later voted to discontinue all debate on the issue. By early June, it looked as if the assumption plan was heading for oblivion. So Hamilton began to search for a compromise that would salvage the linchpin of his economic program.

Days later, Melancton Smith finally broke the deadlock when he endorsed the Constitution if Congress would promise to consider some amendments. Paying indirect tribute to Hamilton, Smith credited "the reasonings of gentlemen" on the other side for his changed vote.

On July 26, the House narrowly passed the assumption bill.

Whenever they met, they stayed away from money talk and spoke of educational policy.

People tended either to embrace Hamilton or to abhor him;

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

It is mere rubbish, thinking at present of the origin of life; one might as well think of the origin of matter.

What leadership? Tildy thought. The president had been almost entirely absent in the debate about how to deal with the contagion, except to blame the opposing party for ignoring public health needs before he took office.

The Nazis took over the essence of each side in the German debate and proudly offered the synthesis as one unified viewpoint. The synthesis is: national socialism.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

Oricine îÅŸi susÈ›ine un argument prin apelarea la o autoritate nu îÅŸi foloseÅŸte inteligenÈ›a; el îÅŸi utilizeaz? doar memoria.

Anyone who in discussion quotes authority uses his memory rather than his intellect.

There's nothing more political than epistemological struggles.

A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!

The Jury had each formed a different view Long before the indictment was read And they all spoke at once so that none of them knew One word that the other had said

You don't have to disprove someone's claim if you can discredit the person saying it.