best suited to the subject, the substance, and the occasion of the speech or report.
The single sentence quotation, as in the following form, should be used when the thought or expression which it contains is the most significant feature:
"The sentiment of the working
class everywhere is for peace rather
than for war," declared Charles P.
Neill, United States commissioner of
labor, in speaking on "The Interest of
the Wage Earner in the Present Status
of the Peace Movement," before the
Lake Mohonk Conference of International
Arbitration.
The paragraph of direct quotation is necessary when
the most important point of the speech is not expressed
in a single sentence but requires several connected sentences,
or when the single sentence is sufficiently long
to fill a whole paragraph, thus:
(1)
"The treatment for bad politics is
exactly the modern treatment for tuberculosis—it
is exposure to the open
air. One of the reasons why politics
took on a new complexion in the city
in which the civic center movement
originated was that the people who
could go into the schoolhouse knew
what was going on in that city and
insisted upon talking about it; and
the minute they began talking about
it, many things became impossible,
for there are scores of things in politics
that will stop the moment they
are talked about where men will listen."
So said Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey in speaking on "The Social Center: A Medium of Common Understanding" at the opening of the first national conference of civic and social center development last night.
