When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation.… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
There are a number of things that came out of Donald Trump so-called policy speech at Gettysburg that most of the reporters… — Star Jones Copy Share Image
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're… — Jann Wenner Copy Share Image
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
In fact, it's the greatest threat to liberty of all kinds, whether it is freedom of religion, whether it is freedom of… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Followers of Christ are not called to be merely tolerant of others. We are called to love those who disagree with us.… — Tim Muehlhoff Copy Share Image
“Free speech is the guardian of individual autonomy, a shield that allows each person to shape their own beliefs and values independent… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
Censorship does not interfere with the constitutional rights of every American to sit alone in a dark room in the nude and… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
You know, Americans think that they're such progessive and free thinkers, but we're as uptight as any other country when it comes… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities,… — Richard M Perloff Copy Share Image
Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
When kids are really little, they all look the same. No speech, no social relatedness, cannot emphasize enough the importance of early… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to remember lines. When I'm doing a long speech for television, I sometimes have an earpiece with someone… — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
University of California students can look forward to the same authoritarian management style Secretary Napolitano brought to the Department of Homeland Security,… — Doug LaMalfa Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“the language of free speech is used to protect hate speech, itself an attempt to deprive others of their freedom of speech,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image