The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.

The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash--the Rupert of debate.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow.

The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow.

Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion read more

Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?

And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation.

And there begins a lang digression
About the lords o' the creation.

Persuasion is better than force.

Persuasion is better than force.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is read more

He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a Lord may be an owl,
A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,
And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.