Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Quote by Friedrich Von Schiller

Topics: Power Quotes, Rhetoric Quotes

The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of...

The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of...

Love is the reward of love

Love is the reward of love

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity...

Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity...

Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do...

Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do...

Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do...

Only those who have to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do...

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge...

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge...

Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God

Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

Votes should be weighed, not counted

Votes should be weighed, not counted

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

A healthy nature needs no God or immortality

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of...

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of...

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by...

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by...

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.