Some people wave their dogmatic thinking
until their own reason is entangled.
?Samuel Johnson
Rhetoric is nothing, but reason well
dressed and argument put in order.
?Jan Zamoiski
Histories make men wise; poets witty;
the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep;
moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
?Francis Bacon
I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Out of our quarrels with others we
make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with
ourselves we make poetry.
?William Butler Yeats
The broad masses of a population are more
amenable to the appeal of
rhetoric than to any other force.
?Adolf Hitler
The dominant rhetoric is academese
relieved by flashes of clich?.
?Dwight MacDonald
