Benjamin Franklin Quotes

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

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

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

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Regan’s greatness as a rhetorician was in his delivery not in the content of what he said as with Churchill and Roosevelt.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

William Jennings Bryan is a much better orator than I am. I have to think.

Great speech is impassioned; small speech cantankerous.

I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage superior to the speech of Logan

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

I'm an orator, a raconteur.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.