The first rule for speaking well is to think well. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Thus freedom of thought, in any valuable sense, includes freedom of speech.” — John Bagnell Bury Copy Share Image
A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech. — Reggie Evans Copy Share Image
“Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech. — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or… — Abdellatif Laabi Copy Share Image
I had a speech class in elementary school. And you know how teachers, when a kid is struggling to pronounce a word,… — Shannon Sharpe Copy Share Image
Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I heard Mr. Ingersoll many years ago in Chicago. The hall seated 5,000 people; every inch of standing-room was also occupied; aisles… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Michael Rubio said Trump's plan was impulsive and not well thought out. The other thing that's really annoying Republicans is that this… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
This rhetoric that Donald Trump is used is very consistent with rhetoric he's used on the campaign trail for a long time… — Avik Roy Copy Share Image
When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
