There is no eloquence without a man behind it.
The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.
Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr.
Every man is eloquent once in his life.
An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.
Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
