It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.
Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Use the right word, not its second cousin.