Mark Twain Speech Quotations

None but the dead have free speech.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

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

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

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

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

Definite speech means clarity of mind.