A Quote by Jean de La Fontaine

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Jean de La Fontaine
French - Poet
July 8, 1621 - April 13, 1695

The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.

Thomas Sowell

Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against Christianity? Also Christians, when they become exclusive, self-righteous, and complacent.

John Ortberg

The truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians-when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths.

Joseph C. Aldrich

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

Carl Hiaasen

You got to surround yourself with the strongest in the world, the strongest training partners and the best people. That's what I do.

Michael Chandler

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

Patricia Richardson

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.

Ellen G. White

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wanted to have the strongest band. I was always looking for the strongest characters.

Yoshiki

I'd always been one of the strongest players in the game, but officially in 'Fifa 14' I was the strongest in the world. If they say so, I must be. I like that.

Adebayo Akinfenwa

Additional problems are the offspring of poor decisions. When inquiry and advocacy are combined, the goal is no longer 'to win the argument', but to find the best argument.

Peter Senge

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.