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.
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.
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators.
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
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 the art of ruling the minds of men.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.
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.