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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 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. Theodore Roosevelt

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

Rhetoric in its truest sense seeks to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves, links in that chain extending up toward the ideal. Richard Weaver

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

Logic differeth from rhetoric as the fist from the palm... the one close, the other at large. Francis Bacon

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

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

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

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric... out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. William Butler Yeats

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

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

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 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. Kenneth Burke

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