Quotes by Orators - Page 3

Give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor.
Daniel Webster
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.
Wendell Phillips
When you have no basis for an argument abuse the plaintiff.
Cicero
God's mill grinds slow but sure.
George Herbert
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips
No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.
Cicero
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
Cicero
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.
Cicero
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Cicero
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.
Wendell Phillips
The age of chivalry has gone the age of humanity has come.
Charles Sumner
To the sick while there is life there is hope.
Cicero
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert G. Ingersoll
In the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Hope is the poor man's bread.
George Herbert
I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.
Wendell Phillips
Little pitchers have wide ears.
George Herbert
Hatred is settled anger.
Cicero
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis
Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.
Robert G. Ingersoll
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Cicero
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert G. Ingersoll
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Cicero
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
Cicero
A great ship asks deep water.
George Herbert
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
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!
W. J. Bryan
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Robert G. Ingersoll
I care not what your education is elaborate or nothing what your mental calibre is great or small that man who concentrates all his energies of body mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.
T. DeWitt Talmage
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.
Wendell Phillips
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.
Wendell Phillips
In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
Robert G. Ingersoll
A friend is as it were a second self.
Cicero
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Cicero
As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Cicero
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Cicero
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.
Cicero
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
Cicero
There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
Cicero
The best mirror is an old friend.
George Herbert
It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.
Cicero
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.
Cicero
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.
Cicero
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Cicero
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
Cicero
Certain signs precede certain events.
Cicero
Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.
Daniel Webster
One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
Robert G. Ingersoll
No true and permanent Fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
Charles Sumner
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.
Daniel Webster
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel Webster
What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips