Dolphins can speak to one another in complete sentences of up to five 'words.'
Abraham Lincoln once gave a speech so enthralling that reporters in the audience stopped taking notes and now we don't know what he said.

Speech is in existence in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends and tell bitter truths to our enemies.
Martin Luther King Jr. added the "I have a dream" line during his speech, it wasn't planned.
Speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make tears dance when we long to move the stars.
Speech is that through which such that the child begins to perceive the world not only through his eyes but also through his speech.
It's impossible to talk while inhaling through the nose
Speech is a good speech when it is like a woman's skirt: Long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.
Speech is muscularly complex --- It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.