Speech Quotes · Page 42

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction (Proverbs 13:3).

— Bible

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

— Ann Coulter

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.

— Dennis Hastert

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

— Jef I Richards

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

— Jimmy Durante

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

— Hermann Hesse

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

— Catherine Camus

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

— Karl Kraus

Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual…

— Charles Rembar

We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He…

— Mark Foley

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in…

— Jimmy Wales

Donald Trump and the First Amendment, it's not a beautiful match; it's not a match made in heaven. Between the free speech…

— Megyn Kelly

When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on…

— Jan Struther

God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that. From…

— Sarah Palin

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it…

— Whitfield Diffie

It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his…

— Phillips Brooks

Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and…

— Milan Kundera

“Speech is such definite thing ... Maybe it's a matter if sincerity. I'm never that certain of anything I feel about a…

— Andrew McGahan

What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers?…

— Anonymous

The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting,…

— George Will

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it…

— Paul Ryan

Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)…

— Garrison Keillor

[A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its…

— R.J. Rushdoony

I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's…

— Richard Saul Wurman

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

— Marshall Lumsden

[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.

— Thein Sein

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

— Plato

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

— Peggy Noonan

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

— Thomas Boswell

It's a rare political speech that, two years after it is delivered, can still be quoted verbatim around the world.

— Cathy Newman

“A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.”

— Amit Kalantri

There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.

— Shappi Khorsandi

The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.

— Philip Sidney

It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

— Tennessee Williams

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

— Patricia Briggs

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

— Jean Kerr

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“Before sight, before sound, before smell or speech or feeling - was Addie.”

— Kat Zhang

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

— Agatha Christie

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'

— Anonymous