Historiesmakemenwise; poets, witty; themathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

America hasjust passedthrough†an eight-yearcoma in which slogans were confused with solutions and rhetoric passed for reality.

-Bentsen, Lloyd Millard,Jr
  Recalling the Reagan administration as he accepted the Democratic nomination for Vice-President, 21  Jul.

   The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could. It is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine†a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

-Oates,Joyce Carol
  In New Republic, 4 Nov.