Speech Quotes

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.

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 defea

Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to say want they want to hear.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.

Social pressure is the fascism of the democracies. Fascism is the democracy of the ruthless. Social engineering is the opiate of romantic intellectuals.

Please wake me when I'm freeI cannot bear captivity4 I would rather be stricken blindThan 2 live without expression of mind

It's a free world to do as you please, within the law, however it's also free to have an opinion - as well as morals, ethics and decency.

I have a decision to go, but I am not sure to choose which other prison on the earth.

Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself.

Censorship is alive and well in America.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...

Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox.

When a moral man speaks, listen. But when immoral men speak, toss away their words like bad fruit. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free cou

Talk less. Do more. Fear less. Achieve more.

Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.

What you think is a seed, what you say is the bud, and what you do is the fruit.

Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech.

There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people.

Ah, fairest maiden, thine beauty doth maketh mine loins stir, and mine cup runneth over.

Trading old broken mirrors that feed lies into our souls for new mirrors of freedom requires choices.

When your soul whispers listen, when your heart speaks listen. Whenever you know it's real love, don't let it pass you by.

Speech’ is such a thing that if handled [used] correctly, it encompasses all the major vows (mahavrats).

(Spoken) words are considered an ‘expense’. ‘Speech’ should not be spent away. Speech is wealth. It should be 'counted' upon spending. Does anyone ever give out money without counting it?

What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that 5 people benefit from it and that it does not interfere [conflict] with anyone.

How can the power of speech remain when you lie for your own ‘safeside’?

When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech.

The way in which the twists were entangled to knot up the mind-speech-body and the innate nature (relative self, prakruti), is the manner in which they will be untwisted.

He whose speech, behavior and humility captivates people’s minds, becomes worthy of worship by people.

However let's turn the coin, what if we choose not to broadcast the bad news but choose to broadcast mostly good news? How would this affect our life?

This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.

The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.

Natural isn't the same as right. Normal isn't the same as moral. Everyone deserves a say in what happens to the world.

Sometimes Truth cannot be silenced.

In leadership, life and all things it’s far wiser to judge people by their deeds than their speech - their track record rather than their talk” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

What comes out of the mouth is the state of the mind.

I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.

I know the power of speech. I don't talk much.

The more power you have, the less you can truly say. That’s the irony.

The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves.

Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!

Many quote scripture, less study it, and even fewer live it. ~T.F. Hodge

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.