“Rhetoric in its truest sense seeks to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves, links in that chain extending up toward the ideal.”

— Richard M. Weaver

“The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric,” p. 25.
The Ethics of Rhetoric (1953)

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