Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Speech is the mirror of the soul.
When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Language is the dress of thought.
A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.
You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.
Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.
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