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Rhetoric Quotes

"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser"

"I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer."

"To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery"

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

"True eloquence makes light of eloquence"

"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

"When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state"

"A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest."

"What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology"

"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause "

"Political chaos is connected with the decay of language."

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak"

"Macrology may smell of artifice, but brevity may also cloak falsification."

"Much outcry, little outcome."

"Logic and sermons never convince."

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