Speeches

An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
- Alan Simpson

Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
- Ambrose Bierce

My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere, be brief, be seated.
- James Roosevelt, 1907 - 1991

A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense.
- Jenkin Lloyd Jones, 1843 - 1918

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
- Lord Mancroft