A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.


The Unmaking of a Mayor (ed. Viking Adult, 1966)

William F. Buckley Quotes

A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and ...

A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and ...

A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and ...

A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and ...