Apt Shakespearian quotations, familiar and unfamiliar, embellish the speeches.

Personality, vital personality, counts for so much in the orator of the market place.
The speaker must be alive to his audience, he must convince by his presence no less than by his arguments.

And Mr.Burns is so obviously alive.

He warms the shrunken, anaemic vitality of followers, and overpowers the protests of enemies by sheer force of character.
Mr.John Burns is at his real vocation when addressing a great multitude.
His energy finds an outlet in speech on those occasions, an outlet it can never find in the necessary routine of office administration.

He was made for a life of action, and when once, in youth, he had thrown himself into the active study of political and industrial questions, every opportunity was seized for stating the results of that study.