Speech Quotes

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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool… — Abraham Lincoln
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the… — H P Lovecraft
The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You… — Jane Austen
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are… — Winston Churchill
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the… — John Steinbeck
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." (From a speech read on video on… — Aung San Suu Kyi
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are… — Rebecca Solnit
My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose… — Andy Andrews
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. — William Shakespeare
History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected… — Don DeLillo
Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to… — Mark Twain
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most… — S I Hayakawa
Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech. — George W. Bush
There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus. — Mark Twain
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists. — Ayn Rand
The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the… — Ayn Rand
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then… — Kurt Vonnegut

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