“It was my ambition all of my life to be the master of the spoken word.” – Winston Churchill

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

January 13

'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.'

- Abraham Lincoln

'A speech is poetry, cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep!  A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.'

- Peggy Noonan