Orators Quotes
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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 government over speech and press.
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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 Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
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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 matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.
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Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.
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Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.
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In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
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An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
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Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.
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To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.
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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.
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Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
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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 from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.
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Gold were as good as twenty orators.
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I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.
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An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
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An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
