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For brevity is very good, Where we are, or are not understood.

He who does not make his words rather serve to conceal than discover the sense of his heart deserves to have it pulled out like a traitor's and shown publicly to the rabble.

His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses.

Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

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

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

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.

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.