Speech Quotes
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
Karl Popper
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation
Daniel Webster
Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least
John Morley
Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information
Mark Twain
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both
John Andrew Holmes
The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin
Frances Rodman
The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
Antoine Rivarol
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Thomas Jefferson
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
If fine speech-making, appeals to reason, or pleas for compassion had the power to move them, the terrorists would long ago have abandoned the field.
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney
