Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information

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.

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

The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it

None but the dead have free speech. None but the dead are permitted to speak truth.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop