In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third, the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. – Aristotle
Pesuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as musch as think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the questino is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions divided. – Aristotle
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wished you gave. – Dale Carnegie
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to complel. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be silent as to services you rendered, but speak of favours you have recieved. – Seneca
Kind works do not cost much, yet they accomplish much. – Blaise Pascal
Where speech is corrupted, the mind is also. – Seneca
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. – Cicero
Wise man speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. – Plato
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. – Epectetus
A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service thoughtout your life. – Winston Churchill
The most perfidous way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. – Fredrich Neitzhe
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln
Language is the dress of thought. – Samuel Johnson