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Unknown Author (top)
The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're talking about.
- Unknown Author


Henry Ward Beecher (top)
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
- Henry Ward Beecher


Ralph Waldo Emerson (top)
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Kin Hubbard (top)
Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?
- Kin Hubbard


Aldous Huxley (top)
The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.
- Aldous Huxley


Franklin D. Roosevelt (top)
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt


Adlai E. Stevenson (top)
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
- Adlai E. Stevenson


Mark Twain (top)
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
- Mark Twain