Speech Quotes
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."
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.
The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.
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 ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.
The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All texting eachother because they've given up on speech.
Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.
In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).
The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.
The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.
Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.
People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
