If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
“I received comments on how extraordinary it was that I could keep up speaking for exactly 45 minutes. Indeed, in an age… — Robbert Dijkgraaf Copy Share Image
In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The idea that speaking at all on the topic, demanding public space in which to have that debate, is itself an act… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“On balance, most of the time, in the ordinary course of life, it was probably best to say what was in your… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them,… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom… — Richard Trumka Copy Share Image
“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic… — George Meany Copy Share Image
Bring different groups together internally, send them out to visit other companies, or bring in interesting speeches. Show that you love learning… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
It's a free country, man. Freedom of speech is the first amendment. But when you are talking business and being a role… — Mike Perry Copy Share Image
The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing… — Jan Neruda Copy Share Image
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great,… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
And I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained withMy… — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
“I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
“At the heart of every flourishing democracy is the unyielding commitment to free speech. It is the beacon that illuminates the path… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
“Words alone can effect great good as well as evil. A few apt words have swept candidates into office, ended as well… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image