Rhetoric quotes

◆ Dear life, when I asked if my day could get any worse, it was a rhetorical question, not a challenge.

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◆ 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 Roosevelt99

◆ The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

- Friedrich Von Schiller99

◆ Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"

- Thomas Sowell99

◆ Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

- Thomas Sowell99

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

- William Butler Yeats99

◆ The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

- Hugh Sidey99

◆ So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

- Brent Scowcroft99

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

- Plato99

◆ The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

- Virginia Foxx99

◆ Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

- Mel Brooks99

◆ I got my degree in rhetoric.

- Alex Borstein99

◆ The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.

- Senator John Kerry99

◆ History never repeats itself, historians do.

- Lee Benson99