Actuality Quote by John Harvey-Jones

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

— Gerrit Smith

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

— Jeremy Collier

Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so…

— Plato

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of…

— Aristotle

Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.

— Alexander Stubb

There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.

— Baldwin Spencer

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

— Julia Hartz

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to…

— Aristotle

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

— Kevin Rudd

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

— Anonymous

The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.

— Hozier