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The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
Adolf Hitler
Other
Broad
More
Masses
Force
Amenable
Than
Any
Rhetoric
Appeal
Population
Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.
Thomas Sowell
Strong
Liberals
Strong Suit
Facts
Rhetoric
Suit
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Thomas Sowell
Freedom
Too Much
Too
Cost
Relinquished
Price
Cheap
Blood
Rhetoric
Much
Agony
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
Great
Big
Nation
Action
Must
Great Nation
Only
Merely
Talk
Trusted
Substitute
Rhetoric
Poor
Really
Act
Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been - and will always be - our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.
Michelle Obama
Strength
Pride
Remember
Will
Diversity
Important
Our
States
Has-Been
Hateful
Disturbing
Greatest
Always
Been
Source
Hearing
Rhetoric
Much
Now
United
United States
Right
Here
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
Mel Brooks
Good
You
People
Comedy
Down
Mussolini
No Chance
Because
Does
Get
Just
Rhetoric
Anywhere
Stand
Bring
Chance
If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.
Mel Brooks
You
Win
Never
Trade
Dictator
Rhetoric
Soapbox
Stand
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Work
Ethics
Dignified
Solid
Must
Promote
Rather
Lifestyle
Performance
Matching
Than
Traits
Rhetoric
Actions
The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
Octavio Paz
Cause
Ethics
Language
Relations
Our
Minds
Worrisome
Ease
Disturbing
Fact
Between
Concern
Accept
Rhetoric
Which
Perverse
Games
Less
Twisted
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler Yeats
Others
Ourselves
Out
Poetry
Make
Quarrel
Rhetoric
We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.
Gavin Newsom
Reckless
Must
Step
Forceful
Continue
Up
Rhetoric
Manner
Stand
Stand Up
Actions
Peaceful
Resist
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
J. Paul Getty
Change
Experience
Observation
Learned
Rhetoric
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.
Judith Butler
Failure
Rights
Power
International Relations
Relations
Markets
Ways
Obama
Constitutional
Constitutional Rights
Pursued
Instance
New
Opening
Democratic
Another
Always
Proved
Continue
His
Link
Close
Where
Rhetoric
Which
Fortify
Useful
International
Guantanamo
Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
Larry Hogan
Politics
Petty
Too
See
Wedge
Divisions
Adversaries
Partisan
Inflame
Often
Rhetoric
Used
Belittle
The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Political
Matters
Tell
Disturbed
Environment
Between
Because
Always
Person
Difference
Rhetoric
Cannot
Create
Explosive
Actions
What David Duke was preaching to me in 1978 about the Klan and what the Klan wanted to do regarding immigration is the same rhetoric, the same position that Donald J. Trump advocates and ran on and is trying to implement.
Ron Stallworth
Me
Immigration
Preaching
Ran
About
David
Klan
Implement
Advocate
Duke
Trump
Trying
Donald
Same
Wanted
Rhetoric
Regarding
Position
In the age of Trump, we need to be aware of emotional rhetoric and its power regardless of whether or not it's based in fact.
Beto O'Rourke
Age
Power
Fact
Emotional
Trump
In Fact
Rhetoric
Regardless
Whether
Aware
Based
Need
I got my degree in rhetoric.
Alex Borstein
Degree
Got
Rhetoric
Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.
Allen Boyd
Education
Government
Health
Women
Reality
Benefits
Care
Made
Promises
Men
Men And Women
Nation
Other
Our
More
Armed
Armed Forces
Sadly
Forces
Health Care
Existed
Than
Rhetoric
Who
Served
Number
My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.
Allyson Schwartz
Good
Passion
Dubai
Nation
Our
Finally
Focused
Colleagues
Critical
Must
Citizens
About
Safe
Matched
Issue
Rhetoric
While
Keep
Necessary
Funding
Ports
I'm not going to tone down my rhetoric, and I'm not going to censor myself in sharing what I believe to be the truth. People could either love that or hate that, but I'm not really interested in playing games in order to appeal to a broader audience.
Ana Kasparian
Love
Truth
Myself
Hate
People
Down
Believe
Broader
Could
Sharing
Audience
Going
Order
Censor
Rhetoric
Either
Interested
Really
Games
Appeal
Tone
Playing
Playing Games
ISIL is saying to a disenfranchised population, 'Come join us. Fight the good fight.' I think we're actually playing into it when they hear Trump's rhetoric. And I think it's dangerous and hurtful as a matter of national policy.
Andrew Cuomo
Saying
Good
Fight
Dangerous
Matter
National
Think
Hurtful
Join
Come
Policy
Hear
Trump
National Policy
Disenfranchised
Rhetoric
Us
Population
Actually
Playing
Trump's divisive rhetoric targets low-information voters and won't play well with the general public, either.
Anthony Scaramucci
General
General Public
Divisive
Voters
Well
Trump
Targets
Rhetoric
Either
Public
Play
Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.
Aristotle
Art
Other
Defined
Case
Given
Faculty
Observing
Any
May
Rhetoric
Available
Means
Persuasion
Function
It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
Barbara Amiel
World
Free
Free World
Talk
Empty
Rhetoric
North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
Barbara Demick
Game
Desperate
Drive
Down
Market
Crisis
Solve
Idea
Korea
Korean
Been
Years
South
Stock
Stock Market
North
Get
Rhetoric
Poor
Realize
Create
Many
Whole
Playing
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