Speech Quotes · Page 48

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

— Abraham Lincoln

I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.

— Brandon Boyd

Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

— Robert South

There are no degrees to freedom of speech, its all or nothing. You can't choose only what you like to hear.

— Anonymous

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

— Amit Kalantri

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

— Larry Flynt

“The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech”

— Stephen Keague

The whole point of free expression is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them to it.

— Garry Wills

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock…

— Bob Geldof

Speech is protected in the U.S., and at the risk of repeating a hackneyed aphorism, free speech is worthless unless it applies…

— Neil Macdonald

The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation,…

— Seamus Heaney

It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of…

— Wilfred Bion

In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out…

— Albert C. Barnes

Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember, 'governance' is a big word that includes human rights, freedom of speech, economic transactions on a worldwide basis - it touches…

— Vint Cerf

Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be…

— Herbert Spencer

“When he talked, there was a sort of mushy sound to his pronunciation that was charming because one sensed that it betrayed…

— Marcel Proust

“A good talker is sensitive to expression, to tone and color and inflection in human speech. Because he himself is articulate, he…

— Sydney J. Harris

I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is…

— James Earl Jones

Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native…

— William J. Clinton

“I've just come to my room, Livy darling, I guess this was the memorable night of my life. By George, I never…

— Mark Twain

People ask me a lot of questions and I don't always have the time to stop and talk, but I do a…

— Chrisette Michele

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone…

— Felix Mendelssohn

As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything…

— Conrad Aiken

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

— Samuel Alito

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

— Lord Acton

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

— Bob Kerrey

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

— Adrian Cronauer

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

— Cyndi Lauper

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

— Benito Mussolini

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as…

— John Ruskin

I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.

— Michael Franti

Speech recognition today doesn't really work in noisy environments.

— Andrew Ng

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

— J. L. Austin

“We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!”

— Taylor Mali

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

— James Harvey Robinson

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

— John Hall

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.

— Sathya Sai Baba

“When the mind is not spoilt, the speech is not spoilt, the conduct is not spoilt, that is absolute humility [param vinaya].”

— Dada Bhagwan