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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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Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Be sincere; be brief; be seated. – Franklin D. Roosevelt, on speechmaking

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Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions. – Joseph Chatfield

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