“Most people mostly use freedom of speech as freedom to bitch.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.' — Robin Quivers Copy Share Image
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Freedom of expression and freedom of peaceable assembly must remain sacrosanct.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both — John Andrew Holmes Copy Share Image
Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I fundamentally agree with the critical nature of Israeli democracy, which embraces the core notion of free speech. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do? — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I don't speak Not a word at will But write so much worth well over a mill' Well… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Mine’ and ‘yours’, is interaction of the worldly life. If you like the interaction where the other person is being verbally abusive,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Speech is a phase (avastha) of the non-Self complex (pudgal); it is not its intrinsic property that has a specific function (gunadharma).” — Dada Bhagwan 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
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
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
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 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
“He spent the next ten minutes giving a speech about the great day that is the day of their Surrender, and I… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
