Speeches Quotes

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Josh Billings

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

Ovid

The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.

Piet Hein

Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

H. I. Phillips

The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.

Franklin J. Dickman

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Winston Churchill

First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak.

Epictetus

When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

Gerald Ford

I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.

Hubert Humphrey

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

Look wise say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

William Osier

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Speech is the small change of silence.

George Meredith

If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.

Calvin Coolidge

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

Edmund Muskie

If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!

Winston Churchill

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

William Shakespeare

To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both.

Elizabeth Charles

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

G.K. Chesterton

Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

Bible

He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

Henry Grattan

Language most shows a man: speak that I may see thee.

Ben Jonson

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one.

Baltasar Gracián

None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Cicero

Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Adlai Stevenson

Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.

James Russell Lowell

Whatever is well said by another is mine.

Seneca

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

F. E. Smith

Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.

Benjamin Franklin

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.

George Bernard Shaw

A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

A.P. Herbert

Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Herbert Gardner

The Nazi salute was performed by public officials in the USA from 1892 through 1942. The researcher Dr. Rex Curry asks 'What happened to the photographs and films of the American Nazi salute performed by federal, state, county, and local officials?' Those photos and films are rare because people don't want to know the truth. Public officials in the USA who preceded the German socialist (Hitler) and the Italian socialist (Mussolini) were sources for the stiff-armed salute (and robotic chanting) in those countries and other foreign countries.

Micky Barnetti

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.

Gore Vidal

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

Theodore Roosevelt

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Winston S. Churchill

Fear of public speaking can be overcome with effective public speaking tips, skills and strategies.

Robert Moment

There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texa...s? We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

John F Kennedy

Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.

Ron Brackin

I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence

Paul Morabito

I don't need a speech. I have all I need to say right up here. He pointed at his head in confidence.

Brad McKinniss

Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be.

Israelmore Ayivor

Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.

Israelmore Ayivor

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.

Auliq-Ice

If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engulf the whole earth in darkness. I would have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population, but I would not be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree, so I should set about however necessary to take over the United States. I would begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: “Do as you please.” “Do as you please.” To the young, I would whisper, “The Bible is a myth.” I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what is bad is good, and what is good is “square”. In the ears of the young marrieds, I would whisper that work is debasing, that cocktail parties are good for you. I would caution them not to be extreme in religion, in patriotism, in moral conduct. And the old, I would teach to pray. I would teach them to say after me: “Our Father, which art in Washington” . . .If I were the devil, I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting so that anything else would appear dull an uninteresting. I’d threaten T.V. with dirtier movies and vice versa. And then, if I were the devil, I’d get organized. I’d infiltrate unions and urge more loafing and less work, because idle hands usually work for me. I’d peddle narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. And I’d tranquilize the rest with pills. If I were the devil, I would encourage schools to refine yound intellects but neglect to discipline emotions . . . let those run wild. I would designate an athiest to front for me before the highest courts in the land and I would get preachers to say “she’s right.” With flattery and promises of power, I could get the courts to rule what I construe as against God and in favor of pornography, and thus, I would evict God from the courthouse, and then from the school house, and then from the houses of Congress and then, in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and I would deify science because that way men would become smart enough to create super weapons but not wise enough to control them.If I were Satan, I’d make the symbol of Easter an egg, and the symbol of Christmas, a bottle. If I were the devil, I would take from those who have and I would give to those who wanted, until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And then, my police state would force everybody back to work. Then, I could separate families, putting children in uniform, women in coal mines, and objectors in slave camps. In other words, if I were Satan, I’d just keep on doing what he’s

Paul Harvey

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Anthony Liccione

Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.

Amit Kalantri

There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange trees. Every month an eighty-year-old couple became lost in the groves, driving up and down identical rows for days until they were spotted by helicopter or another tourist on top of the Citrus Tower. They had lived on nothing but oranges and come out of the trees drilled on vitamin C and checked into the honeymoon suite at the nearest bed-and-breakfast."The Miami Seaquarium put in a monorail and rockets started going off at Cape Canaveral, making us feel like we were on the frontier of the future. Disney bought up everything north of Lake Okeechobee, preparing to shove the future down our throats sideways."Things evolved rapidly! Missile silos in Cuba. Bales on the beach. Alligators are almost extinct and then they aren't. Juntas hanging shingles in Boca Raton. Richard Nixon and Bebe Rebozo skinny-dipping off Key Biscayne. We atone for atrocities against the INdians by playing Bingo. Shark fetuses in formaldehyde jars, roadside gecko farms, tourists waddling around waffle houses like flocks of flightless birds. And before we know it, we have The New Florida, underplanned, overbuilt and ripe for a killer hurricane that'll knock that giant geodesic dome at Epcot down the trunpike like a golf ball, a solid one-wood by Buckminster Fuller."I am the native and this is my home. Faded pastels, and Spanish tiles constantly slipping off roofs, shattering on the sidewalk. Dogs with mange and skateboard punks with mange roaming through yards, knocking over garbage cans. Lunatics wandering the streets at night, talking about spaceships. Bail bondsmen wake me up at three A.M. looking for the last tenant. Next door, a mail-order bride is clubbed by a smelly ma in a mechanic's shirt. Cats violently mate under my windows and rats break-dance in the drop ceiling. And I'm lying in bed with a broken air conditioner, sweating and sipping lemonade through a straw. And I'm thinking, geez, this used to be a great state."You wanna come to Florida? You get a discount on theme-park tickets and find out you just bough a time share. Or maybe you end up at Cape Canaveral, sitting in a field for a week as a space shuttle launch is canceled six times. And suddenly vacation is over, you have to catch a plane, and you see the shuttle take off on TV at the airport. But you keep coming back, year after year, and one day you find you're eighty years old driving through an orange grove.

Tim Dorsey

I never understood what it meant to be a Democrat or Republican. I'm fully American and agree on some issues presented by both - but not all of them. So why do I have to pick a side? Nobody can say they agree with every single issue proposed by any team unless they lack the ability to think for themselves. To me, both parties are the same. A method to distract and divide a nation from using common sense and logic. I would want a leader to represent every fraction of the country as one united SUM. To make the country stronger, not weaker. One thing I know for certain, is to never choose a leader who needs their speeches written for them. If they cannot communicate to the public directly with their own heart, then they are not a true leader.

Suzy Kassem

When a moral man speaks, listen. But when immoral men speak, toss away their words like bad fruit. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

Suzy Kassem

I believe with all my heart, that Magnus is a worthy and superior successor to your current king. Therefore, I ask today that you reject Gaius Damora as your leader and take Prince Magnus as your new king. He will right the wrongs that have overtaken Mytica. And he will make Gaius Damora pay for all he has destroyed.

Morgan Rhodes

Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily.He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.''My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!' ...'In the Lords, I remember. It was about how he didn't like strawberry jam.''Be nice, Charles! It was a speech about fruit importation, which I admit devolved into something of a tirade.' She couldn't help but laugh. 'Still, you could talk about something more important.''Than jam? Impossible. We mustn't set the bar too high, Jane.

Charles Finch

There wasn't even enough meat to make proper fun of [....] I keep waiting for somebody else to come on TV, maybe a cabinet member, to read the real speech, the one that tells us ... I dunno ... stuff. Seriously, sorority girls have done the Walk of Shame home from frat parties feeling more satisfied.

Stephen Green

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