but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people? — Naomi Mitchison Copy Share Image
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
Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds.… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A great speech can make you remember something about what you believe, about who you are, about who you want to be.… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to… — Frank Serpico Copy Share Image
Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write.… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to… — Gaddafi Copy Share Image
In the U.S., the country that has always been lecturing the world about the value of freedoms - of freedom of speech,… — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
“We may not be, as we used to boast, the only ones who can deploy vocal communication for sheer pleasure and recreation,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged.… — Ann Althouse Copy Share Image
What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech,… — Thomas Merton 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
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
The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself,… — Jonathan Krohn Copy Share Image
And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words. — Homer Copy Share Image
“is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible.” — Erin Moure Copy Share Image
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