Speech Quotes · Page 148

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our…

— William Henry Ashley

I could use a Chris Matthews-level speech writer to script everything I say. That would be good.

— Daryl Morey

The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss…

— Alexander Haig

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak…

— Francis Bacon

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my…

— Ameen Rihani

Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape…

— Edward Albee

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

— Karl Kraus

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading.…

— Thomas Jefferson

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I've appeared on InfoWars many times, and I've never heard 'hate speech.' InfoWars has libertarian and conservative-leaning views.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

— Neil Gaiman

“If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.”

— Amit Kalantri

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows…

— John Sterling

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

— Charles Dickens

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for…

— Walter Kirn

Many [most] of Ivanka's [Trump] ideals are the platform of the democratic party. Her father [Donald Trump] has never mentioned anything she…

— Chrissy Teigen

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

— Anonymous

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied…

— John Locke

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in…

— Zig Ziglar

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

— Umberto Eco

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

— Abraham Lincoln

That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled…

— Edward Coke

Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech.

— Nell Scovell

The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate,…

— Thomas Carlyle

The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you've…

— Keanu Reeves