The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present.
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
So on the tip of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and question deep, All replication prompt and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep. To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, Catching all passions in his craft of will; . . .
Truth springs from argument amongst friends. -David Hume.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.