Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech… — Julius Genachowski Copy Share Image
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The question I have is out of all these commencement speeches that are happening, what`s the really worthwhile advice that a 21,… — David Corn Copy Share Image
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live… — Lawrence M. Friedman Copy Share Image
When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech. — Dogen Copy Share Image
“Wokeism's impact on free speech becomes pronounced when it leads to the cancellation of individuals expressing opinions, even through the medium of… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket... — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
That is why, as one who values the U.S. - Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer. — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
Gun control impinges upon the Second Amendment; involuntary commitment impinges upon the liberty clause of the Fifth Amendment; curbing 'entertainment' violence impinges… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Over past years we have seen unrelenting pressure from advocates of homosexuality to accept as normal what is not normal, and to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
Any government which fears freedom of speech and expression, should fear the internet more. — Robert Black Copy Share Image
