Action Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion,…

— George will

As the American people have discovered, soaring rhetoric is no substitute for effective leadership on the key issues facing our nation: jobs, runaway spending,…

— Kevin Brady

Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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

— Gerrit Smith

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing…

— Aristotle

Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language…

— Kenneth Burke

Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity…

— Aristotle

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

— Baldwin Spencer

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

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a…

— Richard M. Weaver

Because the speech is an argument, and a great speech makes an argument well, the act of making that argument is a really important…

— Jon Lovett

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by…

— Ray Comfort