Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
Speech is civilization itself... It is silence which isolates.
Be check'd for silence, but never tax'd for speech.
There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.