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A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep!  A speech reminds us that words, like…

Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.  ~Lord Reading, on speechmakingCUL

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be…

Liberty don’t work as good in practice as it does in speeches.  ~Will Rogers

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or…

But I… never was happy, never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours…

Political speeches are like steer horns.  A point here, a point there, and a lot…

When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and…

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.  ~Joseph…

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless…

The problem with speeches isn’t so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when…

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave.  The one you practiced,…