Rhetoric Gladiator
General Maximus Meridius: Opening Battle Address to the Roman CavalryThree weeks from now I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Brothers, what we do in Life echoes in Eternity.... Plato: Rhetoric is "the art of winning the soul by discourse." Aristotle: Rhetoric is "the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion. Cicero: "Rhetoric is one great art comprised of five lesser arts: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and pronunciatio." Rhetoric is "speech designed to persuade." Quintillian: "Rhetoric is the art of speaking well." Francis Bacon: The duty and office of rhetoric is to apply reason to imagination for the better moving of the will. George Campbell: [Rhetoric] is that art or talent by which discourse is adapted to its end. The four ends of discourse are to enlighten the understanding, please the imagination, move the passion, and influence the will. I. A. Richards: Rhetoric is the study of misunderstandings and their remedies. Richard Weaver: Rhetoric is that "which crea
George Kennedy: Rhetoric in the most general sense may perhaps be identified with the energy inherent in communication: the emotional energy that impels the speaker to speak, the physical energy expanded in the utterance, the energy level coded in the message, and the energy experienced by the recipient in decoding the message. We've grown used to wonders in this century. It's hard to dazzle us. But for twenty-five years the United States space program has been doing just that. We've grown used to the idea of space, and, perhaps we forget that we've only just begun. We're still pioneers. They, the members of the Challenger crew, were pioneers. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last." from every mountainside, let freedom ring! tes an informed appetition for the good."
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