Speech is the small change of silence.
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.
The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.
Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.
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.
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not roc...
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.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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.
Joshua's ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were some high and low points, I could never remember the sermons word for word, but here's the gist of...
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