Rhetoric


The Art of Rhetoric
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
A Rhetoric of Motives
The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present
Gorgias
On the Ideal Orator
Phaedrus
Rhetorica ad Herennium
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
You Talkin' To Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Thomas Henry Huxley
[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent from an ape on his mother's or his father's side] A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man—a man of restless and versatile intellect—who … plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attenti ...more
Thomas Huxley

Hannah Arendt
There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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