Oration Quotes

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

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

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people... but by the effect it exerts on the people.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers.