Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

It's something that you never take off the table; that would be sort of a demonstration of poor citizenship. The answer is I don't know and the truth is that I don't want to do it.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.