Power Of Speech Quotes

• Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Fear, Intelligent, Speech

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Speech, Good Sense

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1843 - 1871”, p.363, University of Georgia Press

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• Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Evil, Speech

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Blood, Boredom

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [225]

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• There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

  Mark Twain

  Liars, Skills, Two

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• It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Communication, Skills Training

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.76, St. Martin's Press

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• Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.149

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• You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Adventure, People

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Sarcastic, Communication

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• We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Needs, Speech, Revelations

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• In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure... Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all mens happiness.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Hate, Adventure

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! [...] You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Adventure, Fighting

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Years

  Speech in House of Commons, 18 June 1940

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• The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Farewell, Nwo, Acquisition

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Men, Long

  "Fictional character: A Jewish Barber". "The Great Dictator", 1940.

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• In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Farewell, Responsibility

  Farewell radio and television address to the American people, 17 Jan. 1961

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• The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

  Jules Verne

  Speech, Cold, Speed

  Jules Verne (1978). “The best of Jules Verne: three complete, illustrated novels, with original illustrations”

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• My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Mind, Speech

  "Song: "My Shot" ("Hamilton")". 2015.

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• What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and developed a new form of metamorphosis. Some of us developed powers. So far there’s been a lot of strange, but not a lot of stupid. This, though, this”—she aimed her finger at the carcass of the monstrosity—“is just stupid.

  Michael Grant

  Stupid, Snakes, Wings

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• This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated; all is concentrated within.

  May Sarton

  Travel, Reality, Cities

  May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.

  Corra May Harris

  Rain, Flower, Hysteria

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• Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Memories, Ideas, Race

  1887 A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

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