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Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Richard C Trench

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Adam Smith

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

Hugo Black

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Elbert Hubbard

Silence sweeter is than speech.

Dinah Maria Mulock

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Maxims

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Roland Barthes

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Phyllis McGinley

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Charles M. de Talleyrand

A person's character is revealed by their speech

Greek proverb

Speech is the image of actions

Solon

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

Lord Mansfield

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity

Gustave Flaubert

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart

Peggy Noonan

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding

George Savile

Speech happens to not be his language

Madame de Stael

Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal

Muriel Humphrey

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

Bible

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Henry David Thoreau

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Francis Bacon

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

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