transfer to the Blue Line

Each category [of rhetoric] is sub-divided: symbouliutic into protreptic and apotreptic, dicanic into prosecution and defence..., and epideictic into praise and blame or dispraise.

His grand battery was as badly provided with cannon as his little battery, for not a single gun was mounted on either.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives... Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and we must all put our shoulders to the wheel, but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket—and are safely pocketed.