(310 quotes found)
“Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.”
Plato
“It will be interesting to see how she reconciles her rhetoric of 2004, when she said that the election (for governor) was all about experience, when in this race, she's at a decided experience disadvantage.”
John Hancock (consultant)
“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.”
Thomas Sowell
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
William Butler Yeats
“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
“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.
“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
“[T]hat's just the nature of democracy. Sometimes pure politics enters into the rhetoric.”
George W. Bush
