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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 students with each other, with me, and with the subject. And the subject, I think, always has to take prominence.

Parker J. Palmer
oratory community thinking
An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory. by Oscar Wilde

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

Oscar Wilde
oratory ornaments
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation. by Philibert Joseph Roux

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

Philibert Joseph Roux
orators oratory mouths

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

Plutarch
oratory important inspiration

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Plutarch
oratory action firsts
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a shari... by Ralph Archbold

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Ralph Archbold
oratory information speech
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
oratory speech firsts
There is no true orator who is not a hero. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no true orator who is not a hero.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
orators oratory hero

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Rufus Choate
oratory independence constitution
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments a... by Samuel Johnson

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Samuel Johnson
adversaries oratory argument
I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy... by Sinclair Lewis

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

Sinclair Lewis
oratory energy rooms
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. by Thomas B. Macaulay

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Thomas B. Macaulay
power-of-persuasion oratory persuasion

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

Thomas Carlyle
orators oratory prove
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. by Thomas Jefferson

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

Thomas Jefferson
oratory amplification vices
Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks. by Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.

Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
oratory tricks littles
Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, by William C. Bryant

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout,

William C. Bryant
oratory cry soul
There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a comm... by Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill
oratory skills kings

The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

Woodrow Wilson
oratory speech foxes
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the... by Winston Churchill

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

Winston Churchill
oratory talent men

Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.

William Shakespeare
oratory kissing matter
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