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| 'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' | | Gilbert K. Chesterton | |
| A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up | | Winston Churchill | |
| A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. | | Wilson Mizner | |
| A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man | | Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. | | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home | | Sigmund Freud | |
| Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity | | Thomas Carlyle | |
| At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. | | Marshall Lumsden | |
| Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. | | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. | | Peter F. Drucker | |
| Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information | | Mark Twain | |
| Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please | | Mark Twain | |
| Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. | | Colin Powell | |
| Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction (Proverbs 13:3). | | Bible | |
| Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity | | Gustave Flaubert | |
| Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. | | Gustave Flaubert | |
| I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all | | Gustave Flaubert | |
