Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Eloquence." Letters and Social Aims, James R. Osgood and Company, 1876, p. 113.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Muhammad, a great orator himself, recognized the power of great oratory.
Goldman was one of the great orators of all time. The assassin of the mayor of Chicago testified that although he had never talked with her personally he had attended one of her lectures and “she set my on fire.” She was one of the most sought after speakers in the country. This frightened the authorities.
Reagan, Ford, Bush, Clinton
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
