Speeches Quotes

246 Speeches quotes by 217 unique authors

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We had a national tragedy this week, and the President of the United States and Sarah Palin both made speeches on the same day. Obama… — Bill Maher
I dont want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of… — George W. Bush
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of… — J M Coetzee
You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it water, and make… — Wangari Maathai
The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold… — Otto von Bismarck
Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word… — Ezra Klein
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches — Patricia Highsmith
I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin, or on their religion, but I would take into account where they've been traveling… — Rand Paul
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the… — Alfred North Whitehead
Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. — Samuel Rogers
There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and… — David Foster Wallace
It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best,… — Michael Eric Dyson
A 'Hitler myth' was cultivated which built on people's desire for strong leadership, and presented Hitler as an almost God-like figure. Hitler's image was laboured… — Unknown Author
Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities, and appealed to… — Unknown Author
We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do… — Mario Cuomo
One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them. — Jerry Moran
The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the… — John F. Kennedy
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches… — John Kenneth Galbraith
And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror… — Vasily Grossman
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when… — Fredrik Bajer
But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression… — Albert Camus
To listen is very hard, because it asks of us so much interior stability that we no longer need to prove ourselves by speeches, arguments,… — Henri Nouwen
Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war. — Benito Mussolini

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