Rhetoric Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

14 Rhetoric Quotes
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“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
“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
Thomas Sowell Quotes
“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
“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”
Friedrich von Schiller Quotes
“Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.”
Thomas Sowell Quotes
“The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.”
Senator John Kerry Quotes
“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
“Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
“Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well dressed and argument put in order.”
Jan Zamoiski Quotes
“Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
“I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
“Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.”
William Butler Yeats Quotes
“The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.”
Adolf Hitler Quotes
“The dominant rhetoric is academese relieved by flashes of clich‚.”
Dwight MacDonald Quotes