Pete Hamill Quotes
He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.
Hamill, Pete. Piecework: Writings on Men & Women, Fools and Heroes, Lost Cities, Vanished Friends, Small Pleasures, Large Calamities, and How the Weather Was. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
Muhammad, a great orator himself, recognized the power of great oratory.
Bacon argued that only personal experience or experiment would remove doubt.
Nixon was an excellent orator even in his first effort at politics. It was when Nixon used that skill to smear his opponents that the admiration of his opponents turned to resentment and eventually this and his lack of morality in politics led the American people to turn on him.
William Peter Hamill Jr. was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and editor. During his career as a New York City journalist, he was described as "the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of New York City's politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime." Hamill was a columnist and editor for the New York Post and the New York Daily News.
