33 Quotes About Oratory
- Author John Kenneth Galbraith
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Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
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- Author Mary Barnett Gilson
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To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.
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- Author Aldous Huxley
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The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.
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- Author Ben Jonson
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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- Author Henry David Thoreau
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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 speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.
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- Author Charles Williams
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We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this.
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