The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

“Nothing could be more admirable than the manner in which for forty years he [Joseph Black] performed this useful and dignified office. His style…

— Henry Peter Brougham

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish:…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

“Oratory is the highest form of music”

— Agona Apell

There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

— Albert Einstein

In oratory the will must predominate.

— David Hare

“Let the oratory be what it is called, and let nothing else be done or stored there. When the work of God is finished,…

— St. Benedict

I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an…

— Henry David Thoreau

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

— Ralph Archbold

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really…

— Anonymous

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

— Dianna Daniels Booher

Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those…

— Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury