Speech Quotes

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.

I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank."

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone you know who is not present with you (any third party).

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.

Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

A spiritual Christian therefore is one whose spirit is led by God's Spirit... Perhaps their speech does convey truth, but without the quickening of the Holy Spirit even truth is of small advantage.

People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near everything on drugs!

I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.