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There is no power like that of true oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears; Cicero, by captivating their affections and swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished with its author; that of the other continues to this day.
Henry Clay
Speak when you are spoken to.
Proverb
The less people think the more they talk.
Speak and the man shall be shown.
Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
Speak little and to the purpose.
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
John Ford
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
G. K. Chesterton
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Jack Benny
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
Alphonse de Lamartine
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Harold Pinter
We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.
Sir Edward Coke
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus An
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
Ralph Archbold
They talk most who have the least to say.
Matthew Prior
I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
Johann von Goethe
It is delivery that makes the orators success.
What is uttered is finished and done with.
Thomas Mann
