“Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.”

“To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.”

“In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.”

“It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”

“There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.”

“There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.”

“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.”