Speech Quotes · Page 58

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

— William Safire

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Positive vocabulary is like good soil. By speaking and being positive we can enrich the lives of others.”

— Julius Veal

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

— Joe Biden

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

— Betty Friedan

I started doing standup because of Hugh Grant's best-man speech in 'Four Weddings,' which is basically a standup routine.

— Kumail Nanjiani

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

— Pete Seeger

Your voice is a very powerful weapon. When you are in tune with the cosmic breath of heaven and earth, your voice…

— Morihei Ueshiba

You can make a lot of speeches, but the real thing is when you dig a hole, plant a tree, give it…

— Wangari Maathai

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even…

— Robert H. Jackson

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in…

— Annie Dillard

Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a…

— Anonymous

I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to…

— Bobby Fischer

Town after town has but one newspaper or one radio station. It is often owned by Murdoch. Yes, we don't have as…

— Pete Seeger

“...if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences,…

— George Washington

I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way…

— Gareth Gates

'Studying the Way' is just a figure of speech, a method of arousing people's interest in the early stages of their development.…

— Huangbo Xiyun

Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression, and…

— Spiro T. Agnew

So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we…

— Mark Steyn

Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural…

— Max Lerner

Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding,…

— Ann Coulter

You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you…

— Roger Ailes

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

— Oliver Goldsmith

You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech.

— Ken Weber

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.

— Ursula Parrott

“During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.”

— Amit Kalantri

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.

— May Sarton

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

— Julian Bond

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

— Terence McKenna

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

— Neal Boortz

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

— William Shakespeare

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

— Mark Twain

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

— Hank Johnson

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

— George D. Prentice

“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”

— Amit Kalantri

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

— Richard Wagner

“Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.”

— Amit Kalantri

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout…

— Richard M. Nixon