Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe. Sir Winston Churchill

• speech
• inspiration
• oratory

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. Lord Brabazon

• speech
• oratory

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. Abraham Lincoln

• speech
• oratory
• ideas
• words

I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard. William Lloyd Garrison

• speech
• oratory

The first trick of the winning argument is the trick of abandoning trickery. Gerry Spence

• argument
• oratory

Words that do not create images should be discarded. Gerry Spence

• speech
• oratory
• argument
• words

I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally. Gerry Spence

• speech
• words
• argument
• oratory

Never, never, never let words come out of your mouth when your eyes are looking down. James Humes

• speech
• oratory

Make a point, tell a story. Make another point, tell another story. Make yet another point and tell yet another story. That is the essence of public speaking. Bill Gove

• speech
• oratory

I never believed that people who used big words and very fancy speech were especially smart or good. I think it is important only to express clearly what you want to say. Richard Feynman

• speech
• candor
• oratory

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. George Eliot

• speech
• oratory
• silence