Speech Quotes

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our countryenergy and malaise.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

A speech without a specific purpose is like a journey without a destination.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die.