argumentation quotes

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

We must reinforce argument with results.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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.