~ Debate Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The moment we want to believe something we suddenly see all the arguments for it and become blind to the arguments against it.

George Bernard Shaw

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle.

Thomas Jefferson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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