Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation. — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words. — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say. — Ingrid Bergman Copy Share Image
Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
America is a mess. And that's why when Hillary Clinton makes the speech, she doesn't talk about radical Islam. She doesn't talk… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think actually that the speech work I do is fine. It's important, because I try to help people think about what's… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
I want to bring the greatest people into government, because we're way behind. We don't make good deals any more. I say… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication.… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“Okay, here’s the first speech. You guys know what ‘black’ means, right? It means a program or project that is not acknowledged… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious. — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket... — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
“I have not the power adequately to describe them without committing a breach of the laws of decent speech.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Anyone who can't tell the difference between a joke and hate speech is just stupid. — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or… — Dennis Skinner Copy Share Image
If you have ever read my columns, you know how important free speech is to me... and how important it should be… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
Imageboards are the most important medium for free speech on the Internet. — Fredrick Brennan Copy Share Image
The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it. — Herman Herst Jr Copy Share Image
