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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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.

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

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

I honestly believe I am the only woman in the United States who ever traveled throughout the country with a nursing baby to make political speeches.

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.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

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

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

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

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Speech is the small change of silence.

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.

Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.

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

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

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

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.

Nature doesn't make long speeches.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

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

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

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!

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.

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.

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

Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

It is not enough to be electors only. It is necessary to be law-makers

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word "nuclear.

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

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

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

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.

I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them I will always love them.

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.

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

Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.

Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

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.

My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

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