There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
Speech is the small change of silence.
The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.
Whatever is well said by another is mine.
He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.
When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.
In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.
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