Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be pu...
...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those fol...
All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder—either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speakin...
The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an imitation of action, must represent one action, a complete whole, with its several incidents so closely connected that the tran...
We are looking for bipartisan solutions not partisan rhetoric.
I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.
There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.
Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.
Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.
The only appropriate war rhetoric is more rhetoric that calls our enemies spirits and people with flesh the victims of this war. Satan wants us to fight with one another, and I understand that some evil must be restrained, but our war, the war of the...
Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who framed them, and less about what he said than about what he meant; not to consider the actions of the accused so much as his intentions; n...
When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of ...
Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.
