Honest debate stops when the name calling starts.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.