[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

Aristophanes
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A demagogue is a person who uses rhetoric to influence the public, for example, to gain political power. It is also used to describe someone who misuses rhetoric; that is, someone who speaks in a way that cannot be trusted or believed. Those words are often used by the mob leader, Napoleon Bonaparte.

Source: The Knights

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