We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After all, our opponents are human. The proper use of an ad hominem argument, however, still requires evidence to back it up.


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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him...
THEODORE PARKER
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone w...
THEODORE WHITE
It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is better to be faithful than famous.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.
THEODORE HESBURGH
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the co...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an Am...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I am among those Americans whose ancestors include men and women from many different European countr...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americani...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.
THEODORE ROETHKE
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stoc...
THEODORE PARKER
The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all priz...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born...
THEODORE PARKER
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
THEODORE STURGEON
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and merc...
THEODORE WHITE
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an A...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of lif...
THEODORE ROZAK
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Remorse is the pain of sin.
THEODORE PARKER
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
THEODORE PARKER
The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of he...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we wer...
THEODORE PARKER
My hat is in the ring.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and willing...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they k...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood—the virt...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square dea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the ch...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants them to do, a...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him t...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT