The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
William James

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
Lord Hailsham

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
William Ruckelshaus

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.
Sidney Blumenthal

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Andre Maurois

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
Grace Abbott

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
Newt Gingrich

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Lord Acton

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
Grace Slick

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.
Elihu Root

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
Elihu Root

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Stendhal

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
Sydney J. Harris

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
Jim Fowler

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Dale Carnegie

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George Carlin

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.
Kenneth R. Miller

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Edward W. Howe