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• Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dog, Winning, Soul

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.223, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

  Joseph Addison

  Nine, Pounds, Thousand

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

  Ralph Richardson

  Teaching, Parenting, Public Speaking

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• Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

  George Eliot

  Light, Broken, Darkness

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.350

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• Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

  E. O. Wilson

  Profound, Sometimes, Concepts

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• Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

  Salman Rushdie

  Freedom, Games, Balls

  Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor', archive.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Freedom Of Speech, Censorship In Books

  Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law (2006). “Brandeis at 150: the Louisville perspective : a sesquicentennial commemoration”

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• It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

  Plautus

  Way, Beats, Should

  "Mercator". Play by Plautus, Act III, Scene 4,

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• Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

  Jim Rohn

  Future, Vocabulary, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 02, 2016

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• Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

  Mark Twain

  Essentials, Information, Eloquence

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.174, Univ of California Press

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• Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hearing, Convenience, Shouting

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.230, Penguin

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• Free speech is life itself.

  Salman Rushdie

  Censorship, Free Speech

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

  Sakya Pandita

  Change, Happiness, Mean

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• We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never hear a real American talk like that.

  Frank Hague

  Real, Men, Rights

  Speech to the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce (12 January 1938), as quoted in "The Last Three Miles : Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway" by Steven Hart, (p. 137), 2007.

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• The best answer to bad speech is good speech

  Alan Dershowitz

  Answers, Internet, Free Speech

  Alan M. Dershowitz (1994). “Contrary to Popular Opinion”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

  Colin Powell

  Justice, Comforting, Needs

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• There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

  Mark Twain

  Upset, Oratory, World

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.452, Courier Corporation

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• Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.

  John Fletcher

  Devil, Speak, Shame

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher”, p.333

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• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Safety, Ignorant, Execution

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• The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy.

  William C. Bryant

  Fall, Political, Liberty

  "The Death of Lovejoy" by William C. Bryant (November 18, 1837), as quoted in William Cullen Bryant II "Power For Sanity: Selected Editorials of William Cullen Bryant, 1829-61" (p. 78), 1994.

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• Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fall, Communication, Words You Speak

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.125, Reprint Services Corporation

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• I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

  Kate Adie

  Expression, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

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• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, Political, Definitions

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

  Francis Bacon

  Order, Speak, Deals

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.349

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• Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Silence, Divine

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.20, CUP Archive

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