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
Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
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
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that… — John Updike 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
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 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
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific… — Walter Lippmann 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
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
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be… — Thomas Hobbes 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
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
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
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
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
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
