Turns of phrases

Speakers in the past, could turn a phrase.  That's why I (and others who share my taste) know, like and appreciate great speakers and writers.  Unequaled and unique are turns of phrase like William Jennings Bryan, the "silver-tongued orator's intoning,  "...you shall not press down upon the brow of labor the crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."  Or Voltaire who suggested that "all doctors be strung up using the entrails of lawyers."  Or Elbert Hubbard who said, "Lawyers are the only people in whom ignorance is not punished," while concluding that a "friend is a masterpiece of Nature."

BUT today I hear Bob Evans farm's as saying that "We can change the way we live."  Or what about the "justice involved person mentioned on the radio? Criminal anyone? Language lost means ignorance gained.