Quotes of Rhetoric - somelinesforyou

“ Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. ”

- George Washington

“ Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. ”

- John Milton

“ Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. ”

- Adolf Hitler

“ Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly. ”

- John Fund

“ Eloquence may set fire to reason. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ They want the rhetoric to end and they want to concentrate on what they do best. ”

- Robert Iger

“ It's not the armed forces which are hollow; it's the rhetoric of Mr. Cheney and, I'm afraid, also Governor Bush. ”

- Carl Levin

“ True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ The finest eloquence is that which gets things done: the worst is that which delays them. ”

- David Lloyd George

“ MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. ”

- Sir Francis Bacon

“ Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. ”

- Plato

“ Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order. ”

- Jan Zamoiski

“ Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The ECB comments shook the market, and we expect the continuing rhetoric to keep bonds relatively under pressure. The ECB seem to be much more concerned about oil prices' impact on inflation than growth. ”

- John Davies

“ Winston Churchill pointed out another attribute of good rhetoric: it is sincere. You must yourself really be against the Germans buzz-bombing London before you can persuade the English people it is a rotten notion. ”

- Kerry Thornley

“ There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop… ”

- Mario Savio

“ I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes. ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ There is no true orator who is not a hero. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people? ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Eloquence is logic on fire. ”

- Lyman Beecher

“ Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ”

- Ben Johnson

“ Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. ”

- Mark Twain
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