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Speech Quotes by Mark Twain
- In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal…
- India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand…
- There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press
- There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an…
- Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with…
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and…
- 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…
- There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
- If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me…
- Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.
- English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the…
- It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never…
- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
- Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as…
- India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand…
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- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak… — Woodrow Wilson
- On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new… — Ed Gillespie
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all… — Roland Barthes