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"Never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another."	Thomas Jefferson
"A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them: lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war [in Vietnam] … then I would lose everything at home. My hopes … my dreams."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"I have not yet begun to fight!"	John Paul Jones
"Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."	Chief Joseph
"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."	Joseph Joubert
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."	Joseph Joubert
"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality."	James Joyce
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."	Franz Kafka
"Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway."	Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went."	Omar Khayyám
"Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable."	J. Martin Kohe
"If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice."	Pan Ku
"When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you."	Irving Layton
"Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it."	T. Lehrer
"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."	Michel Leiris
"There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower."	Michael Lews
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tired on him personally."	Abraham Lincoln
"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."	John Locke
"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."	James Russel Lowell
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