“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.”
Herbert Hoover
“She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech”
“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
Oscar Wilde
“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.”
Dale Carnegie