Speech Quotes · Page 33

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

— Anonymous

Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act…

— Umar

“On the one hand, freedom of speech guarantees a lack of freedom.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.

— Cato the Younger

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

— Helen Keller

I'm really proud of this Supreme Court and the way they've been dealing with the issue of First Amendment political speech.

— Mitch McConnell

I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are…

— Malcolm Turnbull

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The problem with restraining speech is, who gets to set the rules? If it's only okay in a certain time or place,…

— Huey Freeman

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of…

— Sol Stein

As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've…

— Killer Mike

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish…

— Winston Churchill

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that…

— Diogenes

Sarah Palin was delivering a speech and she said 'refudiate.' It's not a word – you have refute and repudiate, and she…

— David Letterman

“Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule…

— Aeschylus

The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more…

— Charles Evans Hughes

A state rep in Oklahoma gave a horrific speech where she felt the homosexual agenda was a greater threat to America than…

— Leslie Jordan

The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role…

— David Sedaris

We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making…

— Kevin Watkins

. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large…

— Catherine L. Albanese

“Because I care about human beings, I want them to be free to do what is right for them. Isn't that more…

— CrimethInc

Freedom of expression is not an absolute, it comes with responsibility. But violence is not the answer.

— Anonymous

If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.

— Lawrence Bender

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

— Robert Southey

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

— Larry David

I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain.

— Klaus Kinski

A speech without a specific purpose is like a journey without a destination.

— Ralph C. Smedley

Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice.

— Cal Thomas

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

— Frances Mayes

I am bipolar, and I am a full manifestation of it in terms of my speech, in terms of my energy.

— Mauro Ranallo

We have never protected illegal speech, as it seems that we have been accused of by some less than credible journalists.

— Jim Watkins

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

— Edward Thomas

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." [ Stanford University commencement speech , 2005]”

— Steve Jobs

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good…

— Leo Burnett

Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover

— Martin Luther

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

— Winston Churchill

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

— Jimmy Wales