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 When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he 
answered, "Action," and which was the second, read more 
 When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he 
answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, 
"action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action." 
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
 You'd scarce expect one of my age
 To speak in public on the stage;
  And if I read more 
 You'd scarce expect one of my age
 To speak in public on the stage;
  And if I chance to fall below
   Demosthenes or Cicero,
    Don't view me with a critic's eye,
     But pass my imperfections by.
      Large streams from little fountains flow,
       Tall oaks from little acorns grow. 
 It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against 
another man's oration,--nay, it is a very read more 
 It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against 
another man's oration,--nay, it is a very easy matter; but to 
produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome. 
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
There is no true orator who is not a hero.
 I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts.
 I am no orator, as Brutus is,
  But read more 
 I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts.
 I am no orator, as Brutus is,
  But (as you know me all) a plain blunt man
   That love my friend; and that they know full well
    That gave me public leave to speak of him. 
 We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left 
an impression more delightful than permanent.
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 We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left 
an impression more delightful than permanent.
   - Franklin J. Dickman, 
 The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest 
sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms.  
 The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest 
sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms. 
 Thence to the famous orators repair,
 Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence
  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,
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 Thence to the famous orators repair,
 Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence
  Wielded at will that fierce democratie,
   Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,
    To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.