from-mouth-to-mouth

Updated: June 15, 2025

When all has been said, the most powerful public opinion, after all, is that from-mouth-to-mouth public opinion that living, moving opinion which spreads from neighbor to neighbor, and has fused into it the vitality of the personality of nearly every man yes, and woman; don't forget that in the whole community. And the philosophy which underlies this is what makes public speaking immortal.

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - The Young Man and the World