Speeches Quotations
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| The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're talking about. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle. | |||
| - Henry Ward Beecher | |||
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| The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? | |||
| - Kin Hubbard | |||
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| The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. | |||
| - Aldous Huxley | |||
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| Be sincere; be brief; be seated. | |||
| - Franklin D. Roosevelt | |||
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| I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches. | |||
| - Adlai E. Stevenson | |||
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| It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||