When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I realized very quickly that the main thing that the left was not in favor of was free speech - that there… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity. — John Hall Copy Share Image
The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, but he had a good excuse. He was watching President Obama’s deficit speech. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“The Lord says, ‘use your mind, speech, body and the soul (the relative self, the worldly self) for others. Then if you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb. — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left. And… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar...… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. — David Frum Copy Share Image
The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who,… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully. — John Yoo Copy Share Image
