Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary. — Ursula Parrott Copy Share Image
You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech. — Ken Weber Copy Share Image
Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations. — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
I dont want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public,… — Pete Wilson Copy Share Image
The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination…Of what use are speech sounds and… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':]… — Bess Truman Copy Share Image
If I make a speech, I need a translator. But music does not need a translation. People understand me through the sound.… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute... I conclude my speech with the slogan… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter… — Dorothy Dix Copy Share Image
There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue. — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
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