Adolf Hitler Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges. Winston Churchill's powerful exhortations during World War II set a standard he had long admired. Kennedy was hardly unmindful of how important a great inaugural address could be.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

… a style of oratory that I never heard equaled in this or any other country

I could sway people with words—words that welled up within me.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.