Quotes about Rhetoric
Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....
— Donald Trump
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
— Mark Twain
Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.
— Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln characterized Stephen Douglas's argument as a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.
— Abraham Lincoln
This is the rhetoric of the Spirit of God' he said, 'to extenuate evil things, and to amplify good things: if a cross comes to make the cross but little, but if there is a mercy to make the mercy great.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
— Ray Comfort
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.
— Ronald Reagan
It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
— Aristotle
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
— Edmund Burke
Victory is a political fiction.
— Anonymous
What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
— Kamala Harris