Speech Quotes

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the world, as a gesture sometimes bears the whole truth about a man.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

Democrats cannot conceive of "hate speech" towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it.

College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry.

Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.

Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.

Simple is the speech of truth.

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?

Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr.

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

Michelle Obama gives a speech, and everyone loves it. It's fantastic. They think she's absolutely great. My wife, Melania, gives the exact same speech... And people get on her case.

Definite speech means clarity of mind.

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Free speech in Bangladesh can get you killed

Hate radio, hate speech, hate groups, hate crimes really don't fit in, in the America that we know today.

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

True silence is the speech of lovers.

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'

When kids are really little, they all look the same. No speech, no social relatedness, cannot emphasize enough the importance of early educational intervention.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.