Orators Quotes

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To… — John Milton
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no… — Vera Brittain
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil… — Walter Lippmann
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though… — Plato
To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers. — Thomas Hobbes
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how… — Carrie Chapman Catt
Gold were as good as twenty orators. — William Shakespeare
I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most… — Virchand Gandhi
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not… — Orison Swett Marden
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.… — Joseph Addison
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform the understanding, but,… — George Whitefield
The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the… — Thomas Hobbes
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. — Alphonse de Lamartine
Preachers are stewards whom the Lord has â€˜set over his household servants to provide them with food at the proper time.â€™ After all the years… — Robert Farrar Capon
It is delivery that makes the orators success. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. — John Burroughs

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