“The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“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
“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
“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.”
Aristotle
“Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.”
Zig Ziglar
