My aim, then, is the education of the perfect orator. The first essential for such an one is that he should be a good man, and consequently we demand of him not merely the possession of exceptional gifts of speech, but of all the excellences of character as well. […] The man who can really play his part as a citizen and is capable of meeting the demands both of public and private business, the man who can guide a state by his counsels, give it a firm basis by his legislation and purge its vices by his decisions as a judge, is assuredly no other than the orator of our quest.
Quintilian

History is vast, complex and often contradictory. But in many ways the trajectory of humanity has been shaped by moments in which a single person approached a crowd with something important to say.
Jon Meachum
Retorica is de kunst van het
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