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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

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My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

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Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

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And empty heads console with empty sound.

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When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

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Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

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I fear a Man of frugal speech - I fear a Silent Man - Haranguer - I can overtake - Or Babbler - entertain - But He who weigheth - While the Rest - Expend their furthest pound - Of this Man - I am wary - I fear that He is Grand -

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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

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...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

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The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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I love free speech.

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Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

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I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.

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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

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It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

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