Top Speech Quotes

If people are not dancing to your tune, change the song.

Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry abou...

Speech Definition

(n.) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

(n.) he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation.

(n.) A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect.

(n.) Talk; mention; common saying.

(n.) formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.

(n.) ny declaration of thoughts.

(v. i. & t.) To make a speech; to harangue.

And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long battle with leukemia nearly cost their family everything had it not been for the hea...

The ear never forgets what the soul says.

from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible fo...

My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

When we characterize talk as hot air, we mean that what comes out of the speaker’s mouth is only that. It is mere vapor. His speech is empty, without substance or content. His use of language, accordi...

When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all.

You don't have to explain something you haven't said.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

What you think is a seed, what you say is the bud, and what you do is the fruit.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.

Sometimes our best speech is the way we look in silence!