Ah, why can't _you_?
Why, Sir, if I could only get you to think as he does--a man with your power and influence and faculty for leadership--I'd call this winter well spent--better spent than if I'd been left in Washington." "Suppose I wanted to change my beliefs, how would I go about it ?" He frowned in his intent effort to follow her, even in her enthusiasm.

"Once I asked a preacher how I could find religion, and he told me by coming to the Saviour.

I told him that was begging the question, and asked him how I could find the Saviour.
All he could say was to answer once more, 'Come to the Saviour!' That's reasoning in a circle.

Now, if a man hasn't _got_ faith, how's he going to get it--by what process can he reach out into the dark and find it?
What's the use of his saying he has found faith when he knows he hasn't?
There's a resemblance between clean religion and honest politics.

The abolitionists have never given us Southerners any answer to this." "No," said she.