Speech Quotes

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.

Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

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.

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.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

Attitudes are the real figures of speech.

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.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.

This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

It was just enough to sit there without words.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

Melania Trump did not object or make a speech when her husband retweeted this. "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America."

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain.

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.

After speech, silence is the greatest power in the world.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.