There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.
Source: In Barnes & Noble Book of Quotations, by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1987.
-- Henry Clay, (Apr 12 1777-1852), US politician, lawyer; He is remembered as the Great Pacificator; negotiated the Missouri Compromise of 1850.