Speech Quotes · Page 32

Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.

— Herbert Hoover

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

— Stephen Mitchell

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

— Mary Karr

There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.

— Benjamin Constant

“Sometimes, I wondered if I might speed up his words by grabbing his wrists and finishing his gestures for him.”

— Erik Bundy

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help…

— Kin Hubbard

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate…

— Samuel Johnson

Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue…

— Brit Hume

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell…

— Jacques Barzun

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed,…

— Joseph Brodsky

…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered…

— Anonymous

I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are…

— Diahann Carroll

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of…

— Jonathan Swift

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks…

— William Shakespeare

I do not even know where Bill Clinton delivered his speech and I know nothing about any funds. Both parties simply use…

— Vladimir Putin

The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy…

— Lorrie Moore

The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double the numbers now. Can you…

— Penn Jillette

“The big break from the past may come when speech recognition software is perfected. At that point we'll be able to write…

— James Maguire

If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the…

— Bernard-Henri Levy

Hillary Clinton has gotten rich, and she's made a lot of speeches, and she's get great book deals and so forth. But…

— Rush Limbaugh

Without the freedom of expression the human species will never move forward. Never less but backwards, without the freedom to express ones…

— Jeremy Limn

We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting';…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free…

— Edward Snowden

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

— Trey Gowdy

“He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.”

— Davis Bunn

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

— Henry F. Ashurst

“People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract…

— Dada Bhagwan

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

— Anonymous

“They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway.”

— John Steinbeck

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

— Voltaire

Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.

— Allison Glock

Freedom of speech should be wide open as long as it doesn't incite violence.

— Mike Leach

“It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.”

— Amit Kalantri

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

— William Randolph Hearst

Whenever I talk with someone who stutters...I yell 'REMIX!' so they feel cool and shit.

— Anonymous

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

— William Robert Woodman

I love it when dogs yawn. Especially when it's in the middle of another dog's speech.

— Dana Gould

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

— St. Jerome