Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
No one can be considered untouchable on political grounds.
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
Why shouldn't I be allowed to say stupid, outrageous things?
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.