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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it’s getting so much better as my confidence grows and that’s thanks to the position I’m now in, which is totally due to my fans.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Listen to many, speak to a few.