George McGovern Quotes

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.

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

I'm an orator, a raconteur.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker.

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

Great speech is impassioned; small speech cantankerous.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

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.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

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

In oratory the will must predominate.

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.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

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

Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs.

Nobody has a magic lamp which can tell you in advance whether what you say will be effective in persuading an audience.

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

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.

I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.