There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
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.
At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?
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.
Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.
Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.
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.
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.
Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.
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