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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
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Speech is the index of the mind.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
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Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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Language most shows a man: speak, that I may see thee.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall.
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. . . 'tis his at last who says it best.
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To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers or both.
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Winston [Churchill] devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches. F.E. Smith, British politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and close friend of Winston Churchill, 1870-1930)
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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
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Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
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The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.