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Rhetoric Quotes
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Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Today violence is the rhetoric of the period. (Quote by - Josi Ortega y Gasset)
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. (Quote by - Plato)
If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress. (Quote by - Alcee Hastings)
His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole." (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. (Quote by - Friedrich Schiller)
Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record. (Quote by - Grace Napolitano)
We cannot all argue, but we can all pray; we cannot all be leaders, but we can all be pleaders; we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric, but we can all be prevalent in prayer. (Quote by - Charles Haddon Spurgeon)
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech. (Quote by - Ed Gillespie)
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. (Quote by - Christopher Lasch)
Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality. (Quote by - Allen Boyd)
I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided the partisan rhetoric and talked to the country as President in each of these appearances rather than to the narrow partisan audiences. (Quote by - Robert Teeter)