For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have… — Heloise Copy Share Image
It's interesting because I laugh and tell people when I give speeches, ' I know what y'all think, oh we love Ed,… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
When I hear Governor Mitt Romney in his speech talk about how the Republican Party must stand for legitimate conservative values. They… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] had already signed Lilly Ledbetter, signed SCHIP, the children's health insurance program. By the time he had his first address… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant… — Ezra Levant Copy Share Image
Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“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