Speech Quotes

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.

I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

Getting a lot of applause, announcing military reforms and upgrades. It's a really good speech [of Donald Trump].

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture, but in fact constructed his speeches very deliberately.

Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good.

'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.

You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.

Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.

If I should say the sweetest speech with the eloquentest tongue that ever was in man, I were not able to express that restless care which I have ever bent to govern for the greatest wealth.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances...If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.

It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.

Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war.

Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.