"He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone."
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"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."
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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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"There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus."
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"Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!"
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"When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'"
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"The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned."
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"In oratory the greatest art is to hide art."
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"An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory."
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"Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence."
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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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