The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. Adolf Hitler
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. Aristotle.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. Johann Friedrich von Schiller
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. Plato
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
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. William Butler Yeats