Rhetoric Quotes

"A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest." "What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology" "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer." "When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser" "To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery" "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." "When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state" "He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak" "Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men." "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." "Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric" "Political chaos is connected with the decay of language." "Macrology may smell of artifice, but brevity may also cloak falsification." "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it" "Much outcry, little outcome."