speech Quotes

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.