The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
Three may keep counsel, if two are away.
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
Too much agreement kills the chat.
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analyzing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a program would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators.
What usually comes first is the contract.
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue — agree with him.
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