Speech Quotes

“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”

“The march of the flag!”

“They could take my career, but they could not take my voice.”

“Being asked what was the best and worst thing for men, he said, 'The tongue.'”

“I know there are a number of you who have strong feelings about me. And I know I'll never be able to change those feelings. But what I want you to know is you've made your voices heard.”

“Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.”

“There will come a time when three words uttered with charity and meekness shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.”

“Eloquence: The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be.”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

“We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.' You never hear a real American talk like that.”

“For it is not the orator's words that I begrudge, but his actions, and his dispositions.”

“If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.”

“The platform is my pulpit.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”

“Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.”

“Guard your tongue in youth, and in age you may mature a thought that will be of service to your people.”

“Then he will talk—good gods!—how he will talk!”

“We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much.”

“Extemporary effusion is the Tautology of a Fool showing himself to be a Knave.”