of Controversy
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Bertrand Russell
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. Felix Frankfurter
Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions. Tryon Edwards
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. Freda Adler
Those in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred. George Mason
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind. George Washington