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A great speech is literature. -- Peggy Noonan
I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy. -- Jacques Santer
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. -- Peggy Noonan
The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate. -- John C. Maxwell
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. -- Zhuangzi
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. -- Dogen
The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan. -- H. L. Mencken
One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words. -- Neil Genzlinger
Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with pride-but rather in the little kindnesses from day to day... -- Edgar Cayce
The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators. -- Woodrow Wilson
I'm supposed to be all re-injected with yes-we-can fever after the big health care speech, and it was a great speech - when Black Elvis gets jiggy with his teleprompter, there is none better. But here's the thing: Muhammad Ali also had a way with words, but it helped enormously that he could also punch guys in the face. -- Bill Maher
I thought 'The King's Speech' was great. -- Paul Haggis
Speech is great, but silence is greater. -- Thomas Carlyle
Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war. -- Lindsey Graham
The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion. -- Markwayne Mullin
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. -- Seneca the Elder
Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed. -- Geert Wilders
It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect. -- Criss Jami
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them. -- Vincent McNabb
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. -- Winston Churchill
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors. -- Shawn Amos
America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot, -- Eric Stonestreet
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. -- George Henry Lewes
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. -- Christopher Morley
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Citizens United fought to defend our right to free speech - and won a great victory in the United States Supreme Court. -- Marsha Blackburn
In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again. -- John Sterling
In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'. -- Scott Adams
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. -- Kenneth Rexroth
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. -- Adam Smith
The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression. -- Lucien Bourjeily
There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speechâ?¦ -- Dan Stevens
The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow. -- George Eliot
Generate great impressions. This is a direct result of setting higher standards for yourself in your speech, dress, living environment, grooming, etiquette, study, research and commitment. -- Archibald Marwizi
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states). -- Soren Kierkegaard
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. -- Noam Chomsky
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech. -- James A. Garfield
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. -- Thornton Wilder

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