For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood: I only speak right on.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

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

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

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

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

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.