Addresses Quote by Neil Genzlinger

“Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was 272 words and he delivered it under three minutes. He labored on it for days. The "featured speaker," Edward Everett,…

— David Herbert Donald

The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings of the…

— Henry Lewis Mencken

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a…

— Dan Quayle

Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a…

— David Herbert Donald

“They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.…

— Shannon L. Alder

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

— Ruth Gordon

The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.

— David Amram

“it is impossible to have any deep understanding of Lincoln’s speech without thinking about the context of the speech: a memorial service.) Here”

— Terry Marselle

A great speech is literature.

— Peggy Noonan

“Human communication, it sometimes seems to me, involves an exaggerated amount of time. How briefly and to the point people always seem to speak…

— Graham Greene

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

— Charles Dickens

“Think about the impromptu speech as a game. Your attitude will change your frame of mind and instead of concentrating on the difficulty of…

— Andrii Sedniev