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I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy. -- Jacques Santer
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
A great speech is literature. -- Peggy Noonan
I thought 'The King's Speech' was great. -- Paul Haggis
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. -- Peggy Noonan
The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion. -- Markwayne Mullin
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
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors. -- Shawn Amos
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. -- George Henry Lewes
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. -- Otto von Bismarck
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
Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention? -- Bo Bennett
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
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.' -- John Bolton
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
Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son's speech was also quite powerful. -- Mark McKinnon
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. -- James Earl Jones
The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then. -- Debbie Allen
A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care. -- Shane Leslie
Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time. -- Scott Simon
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. -- George D. Prentice
the great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood -- Otto von Bismarck
"I don't want to lose you, I love you, and...and that's all I've got." As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings went...different story. -- Kristan Higgins

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