Debate sayings

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◆ When discussion turns into debate reasoning takes a back seat to emotions.

- Tasneem Hameed99

◆ You know you win an argument, when the person responds with whatever.

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◆ He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

- Joe Abercrombie99

◆ I think in our desire to create a better America, we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

- Craig Ferguson99

◆ After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.

- Edward R Murrow99

◆ Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

- Amos Bronson Alcott99

◆ Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

- Baltasar Gracian99

◆ It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

- Joseph Joubert99

◆ I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

- Margaret Thatcher99

◆ Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

- Colin Powell99

◆ In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

- Yitzhak Rabin99

◆ A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

- Dean Koontz99

◆ I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

- Karen Hughes99

◆ It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

- Elbert Hubbard99