~ Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. ~
~ With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. ~
~ He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. ~
~ I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. ~
~ His conduct still right with his argument wrong. ~
~ Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. ~
~ I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. ~
~ Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. ~
~ The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. ~
~ Silence is argument carried on by other means. ~
~ "For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. ~
~ It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. ~