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Quotes about Rhetoric

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
- Henry David Thoreau
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson