Adversaries Quote by Samuel Johnson

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

— Winston Churchill

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit…

— Aldous Huxley

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator…

— Plato

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— William Jennings Bryan

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

— William Hazlitt

“A good orator must be a good listener”

— Aman Srivastava

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

— Philibert Joseph Roux

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

— Joshua Reynolds

Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

— Mason Cooley