Richard Weaver Quote

In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands ultimate. There is some ground for calling a rhetorical education necessarily aristocratic education in that the rhetorician has to deal with an aristocracy of notions.

The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric, p. 23. - The Ethics of Rhetoric (1953)