speech Quotes

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.