rhetoric, n.Definitions

Rhetoric is nothing else.

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

Rhetoric is made out of quarrels with others, just as poetry is made out of quarrels with ourself.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk... we must act big.

Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: The use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.

Rhetoric is an effort to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves, links in that chain extending up toward the ideal.

Rhetoric is different from logic as the palm is different from the fist... the one is an opening up, the other is a closing.

Rhetoric is figured language like poetry, and shades off imperceptibly into the mythical and poetic, and because it makes assertions, it 'answers' to dialectic.