Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
I got my degree in rhetoric.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
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.
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.