The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary. — Ursula Parrott Copy Share Image
You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech. — Ken Weber Copy Share Image
“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
I didn't realise I had a speech impediment until I came back to England. I spent the whole of my life working… — Roy Hodgson Copy Share Image
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
“Where there is partiality (pakshapaat), there is violence (himsa); it is speech that hurts (himsak vani). Where there is impartial speech (nishpakshapati… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason - our most cherished right. But it often creates muddy and uncomfortable… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
“Prince's words had not been meant as a warning. Rather, he had been playing. He had been pretending. He had been speaking… — André Alexis Copy Share Image
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government - one that leaves the way… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
The intelligent defense of free speech should not rest on the notion that we must tolerate every form of speech, no matter… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
People are already talking about the next presidential election. There's stories all over about who might run. At a recent speech, a… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations. — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. — George Savile Copy Share Image
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence. — Newton Lee Copy Share Image
I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature 2 stop speech when words become superfluous. — Unkown Copy Share Image
It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. — William Safire Copy Share Image
