A Quote by Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

Countries that censor news and information must recognize that from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and commercial speech. If businesses in your nations are denied access to either type of information, it will inevitably impact on growth.

Hillary Clinton

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

Walter Wriston

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Francis Bacon

The media plays an essential role in our culture. It is the Fourth Estate; it's an undeniably essential instrument in the great American experiment - in keeping our democracy functional. People have very strong opinions about what that means and how information should be disseminated to a population that requires information.

Thomas Sadoski

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

Mahatma Gandhi

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

Ann Coulter

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

Edwin Newman

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

Seth Lloyd

The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an exception for business information and super timely information, but in all other cases, ideas that spread win.

Seth Godin

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

Koichiro Matsuura

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Hannah More

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

Glenn Greenwald

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