Persuasive Speech Quotes

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

Great speech is impassioned; small speech cantankerous.

… a style of oratory that I never heard equaled in this or any other country

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

The purpose of oratory or philosophy [is to] respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word.

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.