ALEXANDRU N. LAHOVARI: THE MOST POWERFUL ORATOR
ALEXANDRU N. LAHOVARI: THE MOST POWERFUL ORATOR

Summary/Abstract: Alexandru Lahovari's success, as a politician and statesman, is undoubtedly due to his exceptional oratorical talent, along with his solid culture, his passionate nature, with his measure and spirit of justice, and, as with all great orators, his faith strong in the truth and justice of her words, which, as a rule, she managed to convey to the audience as well. Listening to Alexandru Lahovary when he spoke, you thought that there were two personalities in him: one that spoke to the mind; it was his mind. Another that went to the heart was his warm and sincere passion. This is why in his speech as in his deed he was both measured and vehement, both respectful and mocking, both logical and enthusiastic. His pressed word, united with the decisive gesture and the persuasive look, gave his reasoning even greater power. In the political order, there was no freedom that Lahovari did not defend, no national interest that he did not support. Going through any of Alexandru Lahovari's speeches, you get the interesting impression that he is (almost) always right and, transposing yourself in time, with an effort of imagination, over a century back, you are with him, you feel how he convinces you in most cases, even if you belong to another era and even if you have, perhaps, other political beliefs, what does this secret consist of? Precisely in Lahovari's art of oratory, comparable, we think, with that of your Mihail Kogălniceanu or that of Nicolae Titulescu. But let's see what his contemporaries thought about the great conservative politician.

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