There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.

Facts are stubborn things.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

We gave the commission facts, ... We went from criterion to criterion to criterion and proved them wrong at every point.

We gave the commission facts,

—Isn’t this how it starts? You have a cause you believe in, a cause worth dying for. Soon, it’s a cause worth killing for. Soon, it’s a cause worth killing innocent people for.