speech quotes

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

If you can talk, you can write.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

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

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‚Ich bin ein Berliner!‘

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

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

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.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

The way I talk is bizarre.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Silence is safer than speech.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

I wasn’t a kid growing up thinking, ‚One day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech.‘ That wasn’t on my mind.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.