History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what… — Michael Short Copy Share Image
Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action,"… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
“Here,for the last time together,appeared a triumvirate of old men,relics of a golden age,who still towered like giants above creatures of a… — David Morris Potter Copy Share Image
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively, as if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
