What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy.

There are three things to aim at in public speaking: First to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into your hearers.

I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.

There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.

Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Speak little and to the purpose.

Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.

He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

He who does not say too much has too much to say.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of good style in speaking and writing.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.