I, on the contrary, would prefer to call Mr. Bryan an honest visionary and fanatic, whose passionate enthusiasm may go to make an exemplary speechmaker at large meetings, but not a statesman whose concern is the world of realities.
"My Three Years in America"
Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
Through all his life Washington was no speechmaker.
"The True George Washington [10th Ed.]"
Paul Leicester Ford
In after years I sailed under the command of this speechmaker.
"From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life"
Captain A. T. Mahan