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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americ

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. – Lord Reading, on speechmaking

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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. – Evan Esar

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When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches. – John Andrew Holmes

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The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. – Aldous Huxley

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