Quotes About Rhetoric

His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Style is the dress of thoughts.

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical.

You (Pindar) who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.

Soft words are hard arguments.

The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.

The mike is mightier than the pen or the sword.

They are little to be feared whose tongues are their swords.

Whenever sophistry and rhetoric fail they send in their poor White goons. They don't have the guts of real gangsters. The letters after their names are their tommy guns and those universities where they pour over syllables in the many cubicles, their Big House.

Although leftists are not uniquely guilty of lying, they are uniquely guilty of lying as a conscious strategy.

There are folks out there, especially during the political season, that'll try to twist and turn economic statistics for their own personal benefit, to pick and choose talking points in order to tear Montana's progress down.

The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

Donald Trump got elected because, in his twisted way, he pointed out the huge troubles in our economy and our democracy.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.