Public speaking is a skill you get great at, just like anything else, with practice.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people to peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. -First Amendment

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

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.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.