Top Rhetoric Quotes

Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.

Rhetoric abounds in the cemeteries of reason.

Rhetoric Definition

(n.) The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.

(n.) Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force.

(n.) Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.

(n.) Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.

(Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings.

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose the most impressive argument. When the mark is shrouded in obscurity, the...

[Rumsfield's] reply included a complex formulation that would become inextricably associated with him: 'There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is...

They were interchangeable tools, and the catchy phrases continued without abatement.

[It is not] the poet's business to use verse as an advanced form of rhetoric, nor to give to political statements the aura of eternal truth.

The weaker the argument the louder and more frequent the rhetoric.

A simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

President Obama is a gifted politician. He is gifted with rhetoric virtuosity. He is gifted with the ability to lie directly to camera without blinking. And he is gifted with some of the most incompet...

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

The Gaza leadership is stuck in its rhetoric of revolution and resistance. But the people are fed up with their leadership.

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.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work...