Famous Speech Quotes

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
-- Bible

And let him be sure to leave other men their turns to speak.
-- Francis Bacon

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
-- Otto Von Bismarck

But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
-- Bible

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
-- Bible

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.
-- Francis Bacon

Doubtless there are men of great parts that are guilty of downright bashfulness, that by a strange hesitation and reluctance to speak murder the finest and most elegant thoughts and render the most lively conceptions flat and heavy.
-- Unattributed Author

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
-- Louis D Brandeis

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

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

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

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
-- Robert Frost

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.
-- Samuel Butler

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

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
-- Joseph Addison

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
-- Bible

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

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.
-- Mark Twain

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

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