Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order
Sir Francis Bacon
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel Johnson
Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince
Joan of Arc
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them
Tryon Edwards
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable
Joseph Addison
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear
Rose F. Kennedy
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers
William Penn
I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote
James Fergusson
Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up
Donald Rumsfeld
Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form
Immanuel Kant
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing
John Locke
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about
Rodney Dangerfield
The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have
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