Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute..
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative..
a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset..
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations..
Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought..
If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it..
Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences..
Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with w….
One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible..
It is the man determines what is said, not the words..
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..
Speech is the mirror of action..
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenl….
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said..
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people..
However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell..
I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind..
I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life..
Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced to. Kennedy didn't even make his….
Slurring is the cursive of speech..
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech..