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

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Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. – Archibald Philip Primrose

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A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart. – Peggy Noonan

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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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