Quotes About Rhetoric

Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers.

Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.

He said, "McKinley was going around the country shouting prosperity when there was no prosperity for the poor man.

The country listened to thousands of speeches and read thousands of newspaper columns raking over every argument for and against imperialism and every aspect of the war in the Philippines.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

When the party system regulates, argument addresses the deaf.

A diplomatic conference, in Communist language, is a "propaganda forum from which to speak to the masses over the heads of their leaders.

Furthermore, the National Day of Prayer has always been soaked in the kind of offensive "God and country" rhetoric that many of us find nauseating.

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.

The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

We should not have the president of the United States referring to segments of American society as the enemy of the people.

Referring to the PAP as uncaring so as to persuade some of our fellow Singaporeans to consider casting their vote for the WP will be self-defeating for us.

We feel on social media that we can speak to each other in a certain way. In politics we treat each other as enemies instead of collaborators. This hate has extended to these horrible and hateful acts.

I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.

I think in the heat of emotions, some rhetoric is said that is a little explosive.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Four legs good, two legs better! All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.

When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.