It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
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Statesmen, chiefs, orators, queens, patriots, kings, And dandies, all are gone on the wind's wings.
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The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.
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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.
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What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
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To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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