“The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CHRIST, ALE, MASTER,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach… — Ithiel de Sola Pool Copy Share Image
When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that… — Jean-Luc Marion Copy Share Image
The corporate scandals are getting bigger and bigger. In a speech on Wall Street, President Bush spoke out on corporate responsibility, and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
That is nice, Mr. Morgan. Because in response to your tough-guy speech, I, in turn, would’ve had to give you my tough-girl… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible… — Anthony M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation… — Mihai Nadin Copy Share Image
Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he… — William Bourke Cockran Copy Share Image
We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
So [Donald ] Trump gave a speech on national security and military affairs to a military-themed audience in Philadelphia, and there was… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Republicans are just rich, old, white people - that's all they are. You ever see the Republican National Convention? All white people… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html) — Michael C. Burgess Copy Share Image
A natural right in the strict sense is that which is naturally under a person's control, his body with its faculties of… — Frank Van Dun Copy Share Image
I've harassed pediatricians and nurses, demanded extra conferences with preschool teachers, contacted speech therapists and occupational therapists over delays other mothers probably… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When I was diagnosed, mothers were blamed for causing autism. There was no autism support. They'd put autistic kids in institutions. I… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
New Rule: President Bush must stop acting like WE'RE the idiots. He gives speech after speech, and the theme is always the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
For Democrats who are feeling completely discouraged, I've been trying to remind them, everybody remembers my Boston speech in 2004. They may… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
For the first 200 years of our nation's history, corporations were never defined by the courts as persons with free speech rights… — John Bonifaz Copy Share Image
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
When I looked at [Fannie Lou] Hamer and that speech it seemed to me that she had to be the bravest woman… — Leah D. Daughtry Copy Share Image
We have to have loving speech. And if we are honest, if we are true, terrorists will open their hearts. Then we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“To me, a king is a lighthouse. A guide who can cast his glow across his kingdom and bring every last one… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
![“When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail. [Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus, Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]” quote by Lucretius](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e3e/lucretius-1632_body_when-the-body-is-assailed-by-the-strong_1136452.jpg)
![“It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy of the web - nonetheless the access to speeches, documents is unparalleled with the ease of gathering information. If I had had that access when I was an editor or coming…” quote by Harold Evans](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fe6/harold-evans-15687_access_it-s-a-fascinating-time-i-think-i-do-bel_1679368.jpg)
![“So [Donald ] Trump gave a speech on national security and military affairs to a military-themed audience in Philadelphia, and there was no vulgarity in it. There was no bombast. There wasn't any of the usual Trump braggadocio. It was a teleprompter speech, but it was serious, studious, and it…” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4f5/rush-limbaugh-28_affair_so-donald-trump-gave-a-speech-on-nationa_1667124.jpg)
![“By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.” quote by Ilana Mercer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/68d/ilana-mercer-6995_business_by-going-on-the-defensive-libertarians-a_768647.jpg)
![“When I looked at [Fannie Lou] Hamer and that speech it seemed to me that she had to be the bravest woman ever, to come before that body and to assert her rights, when she knew that she was going lose that battle. But she did it anyway, because she knew she was speaking not just for herself and for…” quote by Leah D. Daughtry](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d61/leah-d-daughtry-33530_battle_when-i-looked-at-fannie-lou-hamer-and-th_927733.jpg)
