Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire ….
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography..
Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of sp….
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour..
Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson….
... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea..
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornam….
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator..
To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem..
Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks..
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable..
The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move..
Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement f….
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation..
Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can to engage my stud….
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first..