Quotes about Rhetoric

Be a politician; no training necessary.

— Will Rogers

I guess truth can hurt you worse in an election than about anything that can happen to you.

— Will Rogers

Politics is applesauce.

— Will Rogers

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

— Henry David Thoreau

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson