Quotes Flashcards
“He who would truly be a rhetorician ought to be just and possess a knowledge of justice.”
Quintilian
“Man is the measure of all things.”
Protagoras, Greek Philosopher
“I have no wish to make a long speech on subjects familiar to you all, so I shall say nothing about the war-like deeds by which we acquired our power or the battles in which we or our fathers gallantly resisted our enemies, Greek or foreign.”
Pericles Funeral Oration
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’d planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Union, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering.“
Ronald Reagan
“The gift of arrangement is to oratory what generalship is to war.”
Quintilian
“Providence has preordained me to be the greatest liberator of humanity.”
Hitler
