A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
~Peggy Noonan
It’s quite simple. Say what you have to say and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down”
Winston Churchill
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches
~Adlai E. Stevenson
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
Author: D. H. Lawrence
“If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready today. If you want me to speak for just a few minutes, it will take me a few weeks to prepare.”
Mark Twain
“He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.”
– Joseph Conrad
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True humor is fun – it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
-Hugh Prather
“As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.”
– William Jennings Bryan