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Quotes about speech
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Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least. (Hoffman Abbie)
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. (Hoffman Abbie)
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. (Hoffman Abbie)
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. (Hoffman Abbie)
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Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. (Hoffman Abbie)
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. (Hoffman Abbie)
Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few. (Hoffman Abbie)
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. (Hoffman Abbie)
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. (Hoffman Abbie)
The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air. (Hoffman Abbie)
Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes. (Hoffman Abbie)
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. (Hoffman Abbie)
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. (Hoffman Abbie)
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. (Hoffman Abbie)
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. (Hoffman Abbie)
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. (Hoffman Abbie)
Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee. (Hoffman Abbie)
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. (Hoffman Abbie)
Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates. (Hoffman Abbie)
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. (Hoffman Abbie)
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. (Hoffman Abbie)
Speech is the small change of silence. (Hoffman Abbie)
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. (Hoffman Abbie)
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. (Hoffman Abbie)
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. (Hoffman Abbie)
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