William F. Buckley Jr. Quotes
A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.
Buckley, William F., Jr. The Unmaking of a Mayor. Viking Press, 1966.
Goldman was one of the great orators of all time. The assassin of the mayor of Chicago testified that although he had never talked with her personally he had attended one of her lectures and “she set my on fire.” She was one of the most sought after speakers in the country. This frightened the authorities.
Logan was a chief of the Mingo tribe, an offshoot of the Iroquois nation. He was a great orator.
In England and Scotland to this day, the language and accent of a speaker is almost a sure indicator of his/her socioeconomic class. In America this is much less so, and language and accent is more a sign of education than of wealth.
He was one of the great orators of Ancient Rome. See {240929} for another of his quotes about speechmaking. Both recommend focus and brevity.
William Frank Buckley Jr. was an American public intellectual and conservative author and commentator. In 1955, Buckley founded National Review, a magazine that stimulated the conservative movement in the late-20th century United States. Buckley hosted 1,429 episodes of the public affairs television show Firing Line (1966–1999), the longest-running public affairs show in American television history with a single host, where he became known for his distinctive Mid-Atlantic idiolect and wide vocabulary.
