Speech Quotes

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.

They classify my motivational speeches as rants...

We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious.

The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established that speech comes in many forms.

My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

I believe in freedom of speech. And I believe that spending on political campaigns is a form of political speech that is protected under the constitution.

I definitely support free speech.

None but the dead have free speech.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'

Antonin Scalia knows that freedom of speech has consequences. And the consequences of freedom of speech are speech you don't like, that you don't want to hear, that you don't want to listen to.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.

Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech.

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.

Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.

Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.

I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.

I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.

I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.