Oratory Quotes

“A speech is a journey of the mind, a voyage of the heart.”

“The platform is my pulpit.”

“Eloquence is logic on fire.”

“Show that you are well acquainted with the state of the commonwealth; for it is from this source that the orator's authority and influence must be derived.”

“The man who can make a good after-dinner speech is the man who can make the guests feel that they have made it.”

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”

“The pause is the most potent weapon in the orator's arsenal.”

“Eloquence is not a stream that flows from a single fountain, but a mighty river, which is fed by all the springs of nature and of art.”