Speech Quotes

Silence is also speech

— Proverb

“Simplicity saves strength.”

— Amit Kalantri

Speech is the mirror of action.

— Solon

Silence is safer than speech.

— Epictetus

We shouldn't have free speech.

— Robin Quivers

His speech is a burning fire.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

I love free speech.

— George W. Bush

“Art-speech is the only truth.”

— D.H. Lawrence

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

— Jacob Braude

I don't believe that the role of the mayor is to police speech.

— Zohran Mamdani

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.

— Louis Pasteur

Free thought, free speech and a free press.

— Anne Royall

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

— A. J. P. Taylor

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

— Mahatma Gandhi

One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches.

— Harold Klemp

“I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.”

— Kiese Laymon

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

— Michael Curtiz

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.”

— Jack Gardner

I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

— Voltaire

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones…

— Amit Kalantri

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

— Ruth Gordon

“It is considered as becoming free from dehadhyas (the belief that, 'I am the body') when the atmabuddhi (the intellect oriented towards…

— Dada Bhagwan

There is not one grain of anything in the world that is sold in the free market. Not one. The only place…

— Dwayne Andreas

Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us…

— Arun Manilal Gandhi

“... what we say or do is unimportant; it is merely semblance, beyond which our real life lies concealed... We know this…

— Hermann Bahr

Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense.…

— Ricky Gervais

Barack Obama can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's…

— Sarah Palin

“There is something wrong with this world." She stood like she was making a speech. "Something very wrong when it's the twenty-first…

— Alex Flinn

The reality is, we have had filled rooms wherever we've spoken, and in New Zealand, the left and the right have been…

— Lauren Southern

Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever…

— Kristin Cashore

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation,…

— Rudyard Kipling

Most of my life I was particularly terrified of speaking up, because I had a speech impediment, which made it difficult to…

— Amanda Gorman

As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control,…

— Tammy Bruce

Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of…

— Oliver Stone

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and…

— Johnny Weir

Our bodies, speeches and minds need to be trained so that they will do anything we want. We can cry or laugh…

— Ching Hai

I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear…

— Vince Vaughn