"The greatest and truest models for all..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.
More by Woodrow Wilson
“I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.”
“High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.”
“People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.”
More on Public Speaking
“I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.”
“I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process.”
“I [give] maybe the long-winded speeches that not everybody reads, but I can also do a slow jam on Jimmy Fallon better than most.”