"There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!"

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Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

— Aristotle