Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.
We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.
Ninety percent of selling is conviction, and 10 per cent is persuasion.