Orator Quotes

It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

The real friend is another self.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.

Life is nothing without friendship.

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.[Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.]

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties.[Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

The forehead is the gate of the mind.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

Go into the sunshine and be happy with what you see.

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'

Let reason govern desire.

The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul

Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.