Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To feminine eyes a man's prestige, or his fame, envelops him in a luminous haze which obscures his faults. The triumphs of… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The more I read about the rules the great orators used, the more I realised, of course, this is how you stir… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight… — John Peter Altgeld Copy Share Image
The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was Mario Cuomo's great gift and our good fortune that he was both a sterling orator and a passionate public servant.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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