Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not reflect badly on their employers, the game or other personalities in the game.
Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.
I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.
I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.
When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Speech happens to not be his language.