Speech Quotes

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech.

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.

Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't exist.

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

There is a time and a place for creativity.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.

A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

Nobody Black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.