Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have read more

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

His speech was a fine sample, on the whole,
Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

His speech was a fine sample, on the whole,
Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of
unclean lips, and read more

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of
unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean
lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a
thousand pounds.

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a
thousand pounds.