Man has been gifted by God with the gift of speech except one who may be born dumb. Tongue is a supple organ and is ever ready to move; sometimes it moves too fast. People talk and sometimes begin talking a lot and one who talks a lot does sometimes talk irrelevantly and even irresponsibly. Words come out and speech comes out naturally to man.
So everyone has the power to speak but few have the soundness to speak thoughtfully. Man is also gifted with the quality of reason. He is the only rational being. So he should make full use of his rational quality before giving his thoughts a speech.
Thoughtless speech can create great complications. Even just a slip of the tongue on the part of a politician can create national or even international turmoil. Every word should be measured with thought before being expressed. People, unthinkingly first speak out, and then have to come with a thousand explanations that they did not mean this, they did not mean that.
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This, so often, keeps happening with political statements once the statement is carelessly made then explanations is offered that the statement has been misquoted or has been taken out of the context. Recklessness in speech can have disastrous results.
Therefore, ‘reason’ the gift given to man by God should always be made full use of in speaking out. Cool and considered thinking before giving expression to one’s thoughts is the quality of the wise. Speech should be used sparingly only when required like the money kept closed in the iron-Safe of a miser.