Quotes About Speech

This new dialect of England's ruling class differed markedly from the speech ways of American colonists, to whom it seemed contrived and pretentious.

Theodore Sorensen wrote for [Robert Kennedy's 1968] announcement speech: "At stake is not simply the leadership of our party, and even our own country, it is our right to the moral leadership of this planet." The sentence absolutely appalled all the younger Robert Kennedy advisers, who felt it smacked of just the kind of attitude which had gotten us into Vietnam. Nonetheless, despite their protests, it stayed in the speech.

He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was 272 words and he delivered it under three minutes. He labored on it for days. The "featured speaker," Edward Everett, rambled on for two hours. Most people don't even remember his name, never mind what he said.

His closing promise of survival for "government of the people, by the people, for the people" may have had its origin in Daniel Webster's 1830 speech calling the American government "made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people," but more probably he derived it from a sermon of Theodore Parker, to which Herndon had called his attention, defining democracy as "a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.

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And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

He authorized Goebbels to deliver a powerful and provocative speech in Danzig on June 17, denouncing Polish 'ill treatment' and demanding the city's return to the Reich. Nazi editors were confidentially briefed: 'This is to be a first trial balloon to test the international atmosphere on the settlement of the Danzig question.

K' is for communications.

His method resembles George Bernard Shaw's way of using the /f/ sound of GH in "tough," the /i/ sound of o in "women," and the /sh/ sound of TI in "nation" to write fish as GHOTI. The scribe also

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us.

The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

I say God bless you... I don't say bless you... I'm not the Lord. I can't do that...

The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.