"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
— Jonathan Swift

January 1, 1970

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The earliest print cite to anything resembling this was found by Quote Investigator in a 1786 essay by U.S. Congressman Fisher Ames: "I have heard it remarked, that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion that they have not reasoned themselves into."