Rhetoric Quotes

The Gaza leadership is stuck in its rhetoric of revolution and resistance. But the people are fed up with their leadership.

~ Isaac Herzog

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.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

~ Gary Bauer

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

~ Plato

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.

~ Aristotle

Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.

~ Larry Hogan

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

~ William Butler Yeats

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

~ Mitt Romney