Speech Quotes

Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair.

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any man lies in action.

You drown him by your talk.

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak.

You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech.

I've made my own comments as to our vales as well in a speech I gave to the State Department.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.

The great thing about the Internet is that it will not abide by the rules.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.

Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?'

The Democrats do not like free speech. And that's not an exaggeration.

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.

When I hear Governor Mitt Romney in his speech talk about how the Republican Party must stand for legitimate conservative values. They don't.

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.

One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same.

One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

You know my beautiful speech has made you see me in a whole new and even more attractive light. You totally think I'm secretly deep now. And you are right. It is true. I have deeps.

Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

Before I begin speaking, there is something I would like to say.

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.

I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.