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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers. -- Thomas Hobbes
Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. -- Jonathan Swift
In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people. -- Thomas Hobbes
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our swords shall play the orators for us. -- Christopher Marlowe
The passions are the only orators which always persuade. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators. -- Jill Lepore
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves. -- Auberon Herbert
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything. -- Elihu Root
Time is an illusion-to orators. -- Elbert Hubbard
We are born poets. we become orators. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is delivery that makes the orators success. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. -- Plutarch
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. -- John Burroughs
in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever. -- Aristotle
Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss. -- William Shakespeare
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. -- John Milton
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press. -- Thomas Hobbes
The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best. -- Plato
Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all. -- Keshub Chandra Sen

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