Speech Quotes

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I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches. — Gwen Ifill
Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed — Rachel Martin
I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because… — William J. Clinton
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to… — Henry Ward Beecher
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to… — Lajos Kossuth
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and… — James A. Garfield
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. — Benjamin Disraeli
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. — George Eliot
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world. — Laozi
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. — Jonathan Swift
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush. — Plautus
Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society. — Frances Wright
Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. — Henry David Thoreau
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air. — Bret Harte
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. — James Russell Lowell
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your… — William Shakespeare
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. — Joseph Addison
Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals… — Aristotle
Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too… — Jean de La Fontaine

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