Jerry Voorhis Quotes

He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

He is the most brilliant speaker of the English tongue of all men on this globe

Great speech is impassioned; small speech cantankerous.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Bill Clinton was relentless, eloquent and truly charming.

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

The gifts of nature are necessary; but they are not sufficient to make a complete orator without art and study.

Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

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

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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

My brother's really well-spoken.

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

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 something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

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

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

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.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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.