Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or speakers:
“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Stumping it through England for seven years made Cobden a consummate debater. Stumping it through New England for twice seven trained Wendell Phillips.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)