Speech is the small change of silence.
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.
Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.
The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.
In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.
When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
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.
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
Language most shows a man: speak that I may see thee.
He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.
There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.
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