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“All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.”
—Adolf Hitler (18891945)
“However much we admire the orators occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or above the fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A word perhaps loud spoken you may get,
Or hear our feet when heavily they tread;
But he who speaks, or him whos spoken to,
Must both remain as strangers still to you.”
—Jones Very (18311880)
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