We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.
If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.
In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful coopera...
The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
Speech is the small change of silence.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Look wise say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.
He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.
Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.