Pastoral Resources

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

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

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.