Quotes by Orators - Page 2

What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.
Wendell Phillips
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert
I am not a Virginian but an American.
Patrick Henry
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Cicero
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities.
John B. Gough
Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.
Booker T. Washington
Praise the sea but keep on land.
George Herbert
Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
Wendell Phillips
What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.
Daniel Webster
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
Cicero
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
It is the best of all trades to make songs and the second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
Revolutions are not made they come.
Wendell Phillips
With soap baptism is a good thing.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
Cicero
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
Cicero
In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
Cicero
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.
George Herbert
He that will learn to pray let him to sea.
George Herbert
As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."
Wendell Phillips
It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.
Chauncey Depew
Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.
Wendell Phillips
Politics is but the common pulse beat.
Wendell Phillips
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.
Wendell Phillips
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert
I am not a Virginian but an American.
Patrick Henry
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Cicero
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities.
John B. Gough
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
George Herbert
Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.
Booker T. Washington
Praise the sea but keep on land.
George Herbert
Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
Wendell Phillips
What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.
Daniel Webster
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
Cicero
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
It is the best of all trades to make songs and the second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory.
Cicero
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
Cicero
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.
Wendell Phillips
Physicians of the Utmost Fame were called at once but when they came they answered as they took their fees 'There is no cure for this disease.'
Hilaire Belloc
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
Cicero
Oh! Let us never never doubt What nobody is sure about.
Hilaire Belloc
The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat with an indolent expression and an undulating throat like an unsuccessful literary man.
Hilaire Belloc
The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
Booker T. Washington
Liberty and Union now and for ever one and inseparable!
Daniel Webster
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
Cicero
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
John Philpot Curran