Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
— Cicero
"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care"
— Theodore Roosevelt
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
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
— Winston Churchill
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
— William Penn
Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
— William Jennings Bryan
There is no tone of voice more compelling than honesty; thus the first principle of persuasion is truth.