Speech Quotes · Page 13

I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another

— John Ashbery

I had a stutter when I was a young. I went to speech therapy.

— Zach Ertz

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

— Pliny the Younger

Speech is always bolder than action.

— Friedrich Schiller

Care for him who shall have borne the battle

— Abraham Lincoln

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

— Michel de Montaigne

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

— Anonymous

“words make some unique ; words destroy some”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions,

— Staffan de Mistura

When someone praises me for some speech uploaded on YouTube, I politely tell them I've been acting for many years.

— Radha Ravi

“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.”

— Amit Kalantri

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

— Dogen

Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

— Wallace Stevens

Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

— Alfred E Neuman

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

— J. L. Austin

“We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!”

— Taylor Mali

I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in…

— Jane Fonda

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not…

— Rush Limbaugh

“a radical departure from what has been settled First Amendment law.” In a lengthy dissent, he argued that the Constitution’s framers had…

— Jane Mayer

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through…

— George Eliot

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been…

— Peter Stuyvesant

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up…

— H. L. Mencken

My company has no intention of deleting constitutionally protected hate speech. I feel the remedy for this type of speech is counter…

— Jim Watkins

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express…

— Gustave Flaubert

I never saw so intelligent a man have so much trouble in getting out a connected sentence. Ever since I have known…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they…

— Jim Jefferies

The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master…

— Anonymous

In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to…

— Aberjhani

It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all…

— Mark Lloyd

There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech… A million voters with IQs below 60 have…

— H. L. Mencken

Speech is Silver and silence is Gold.

— Ace Kid

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

— William Shakespeare

We believe in freedom of speech for everybody.

— Javier Milei

“Nobody can be too careful about their habits of speech.”

— T.H. White

I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'

— Louis C. K

Hate speech can't be a part of free speech.

— Arun Jaitley

“If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Think of speech as a magickal tool, because it is.”

— Mat Auryn