Quotes Tagged With :rhetoric

In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.

Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?I didn't.

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.....

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for....

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual....

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends....