Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.
All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.
Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.