Amplification Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amplification Modern Oratory Vices
There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“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 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 hearer along… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice. — Plato Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification. — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed. — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I love, I… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of… — Archibald Geikie Copy Share Image
Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting, no exciting visuals or… — Tim Hughes Copy Share Image
“[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What I really like about Cuba is that you can go into a local bar in a provincial town and you'll get jazz played… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image