Speech Quotes
We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Barack Obama can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign.
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?
Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.
I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.
These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.
I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.
American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.
Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’
It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.
As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.
...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.
Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence
Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.
In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net.
Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
I'm your idol, the highest title, Numero Uno, I'm not a Puerto Rican, but I'm speakin so that you know, And understand, I got the gift of speech, And it's a blessin, so listen to the lesson I preach.
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No one wants to hear me give a speech that way.
No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.