“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
“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”
Plato
“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
Thomas Sowell
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
William Butler Yeats
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”
Friedrich von Schiller
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
