Causes Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

— George McGovern

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

— Samuel Johnson

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

— Maria Edgeworth

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

— William Hazlitt

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

— Anonymous

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

— William Jennings Bryan

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.

— Benjamin Franklin

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

— Philibert Joseph Roux

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds…

— Theodore Roosevelt