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speech and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, quoted above, are two iconic examples of successful oratory, as are Elizabeth I's speech to the troops at Tilbury and Winston Churchill's first speech as prime minister to the House of Commons.
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St. Augustine
St. Augustine ; feast day August 28) was the bishop of Hippo from 396 to 430, one of the Latin Fathers of the Church and perhaps the most significant Christian thinker after St. Paul. Augustine’s adaptation...
St. Ambrose
St. Ambrose ; feast day December 7) was the bishop of Milan, a biblical critic, a doctor of the church, and the initiator of ideas that provided a model for medieval conceptions of church?state relations....
Isocrates
Isocrates was an ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important historical source on the intellectual and political life of the Athens of his day. The school he founded...
oratory
Oratory, the rationale and practice of persuasive public speaking. It is immediate in its audience relationships and reactions, but it may also have broad historical repercussions. The orator may become...
Tecumseh
Tecumseh was a Shawnee Indian chief, orator, military leader, and advocate of intertribal Indian alliance who directed Indian resistance to white rule in the Ohio River valley. In the War of 1812 he joined...
Quintilian
Quintilian was a Latin teacher and writer whose work on rhetoric, Institutio oratoria, is a major contribution to educational theory and literary criticism. Quintilian was born in northern Spain, but he...
John Donne
John Donne was a leading English poet of the Metaphysical school and dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London (1621?31). Donne is often considered the greatest love poet in the English language. He is also...
Tacitus
Tacitus was a Roman orator and public official, probably the greatest historian and one of the greatest prose stylists who wrote in the Latin language. Among his works are the Germania, describing the...
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet was a bishop who was the most eloquent and influential spokesman for the rights of the French church against papal authority. He is now chiefly remembered for his literary works,...
Honore-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Honore-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau was a French politician and orator, one of the greatest figures in the National Assembly that governed France during the early phases of the French Revolution....
Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster was an American orator and politician who practiced prominently as a lawyer before the U.S. Supreme Court and served as a U.S. congressman (1813?17, 1823?27), a U.S. senator (1827?41, 1845?50),...
Cicero
Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer who vainly tried to uphold republican principles in the final civil wars that destroyed the Roman Republic. His writings include books of rhetoric,...
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry was a brilliant orator and a major figure of the American Revolution, perhaps best known for his words “Give me liberty or give me death!” which he delivered in 1775. He was independent Virginia’s...
Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart was a Dominican theologian and writer who was the greatest German speculative mystic. In the transcripts of his sermons in German and Latin, he charts the course of union between the individual...
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was a British statesman, orator, and author who as prime minister (1940?45, 1951?55) rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory....
Demosthenes
Demosthenes was an Athenian statesman, recognized as the greatest of ancient Greek orators, who roused Athens to oppose Philip of Macedon and, later, his son Alexander the Great. His speeches provide valuable...
St. Basil the Great
St. Basil the Great ; Western feast day January 2; Eastern feast day January 1) was an early Church Father who defended the orthodox faith against the Arian heresy. As bishop of Caesarea, he wrote several...
John Bright
John Bright was a British reform politician and orator active in the early Victorian campaigns for free trade and lower grain prices. He was a co-founder of the Anti-Corn Law League, as well as campaigns...
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