It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

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.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

None but the dead have free speech. None but the dead are permitted to speak truth.

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.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information