I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
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.
As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.
Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.
Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.
I got my degree in rhetoric.