Speech Quotes

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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech — Plutarch
A person's character is revealed by their speech — Greek Proverb
My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. — Betty Reese
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little… — John Locke
The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities — John Wesley
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. — Marshall Lumsden
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in… — James C Humes
A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill. — Lord Mansfield
Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the… — Gustave Flaubert
Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters… — John Morley
Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between. — Alfred E Neuman
All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.… — Abraham Lincoln
Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches — Will Rogers
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. — Hansell B Duckett
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words — Bible
Speech is oft repented, silence never — Danish Proverb
For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages. — Francis Bacon Sr
Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as… — Mark Twain

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