“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“A soft Tongue may strike hard.”
Benjamin Franklin
“There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory”
Mark Twain
“Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? / This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.”
Bible
“Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
Aristotle
“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”
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