“If the state of oratory that inundates our educational institutions during the month of June could be transformed into rain for southern California, we should all be happily awash or waterlogged.”
Samuel Gould
“Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.”
Brooks Hays
“Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.”
“In oratory the will must predominate.”
David Hare
“We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this.”
Charles Williams
“He can take a batch of words and scramble them together and leaven them properly with a hunk of oratory and knock the White House door-knob right out of a candidate's hand.”
Will Rogers