oratory: Quick Facts

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Tecumseh

Tecumseh

Shawnee chief

Abraham Lincoln portrait

Abraham Lincoln

president of United States

British prime minister Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

prime minister of United Kingdom

Marble bust of Marcus Tullius Cicero, shown with short hair and draped clothing, displayed against a black background.

Cicero

Roman statesman, scholar, and writer

Demosthenes

Demosthenes

Greek statesman and orator

Tacitus

Tacitus

Roman historian

Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti

Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

French politician and orator

American orator and politician Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster

American orator, politician, and lawyer

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Isocrates

Greek orator and rhetorician

Bright, John

John Bright

British politician

St. Ambrose

St. Ambrose

bishop of Milan

William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan

American politician

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry

American statesman

Maria Stewart

Maria Stewart

American author

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Marcus Porcius Cato

Roman statesman [234-149 BCE]

Dale Carnegie

Dale Carnegie

American author and lecturer

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Feofan Prokopovich

Russian-Ukrainian theologian and writer

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson.

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson

American lecturer

Barnave, Antoine

Antoine Barnave

French politician

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Hyperides

Greek politician

President Ronald Reagan deliving his famous speech that challenged the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall, at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, June 12, 1987.

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