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 Quotes

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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

Thomas Sowell Quotes

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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 Quotes

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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Friedrich von Schiller Quotes

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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

Thomas Sowell Quotes

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The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.

Senator John Kerry Quotes

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Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"

Thomas Sowell Quotes

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Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.

Samuel Johnson Quotes

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Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Jan Zamoiski Quotes

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

Francis Bacon Quotes

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I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

William Butler Yeats Quotes

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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

Adolf Hitler Quotes

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The dominant rhetoric is academese relieved by flashes of clich‚.

Dwight MacDonald Quotes

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