Speech Quotes · Page 31

“The right to free speech and the unrealistic expectation to never be offended can not coexist.”

— Philip Sharp

“I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.”

— Octavia E. Butler

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

— Charles Bradlaugh

I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech.

— Scott Peters

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave.

— Anonymous

“I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.”

— Jimmy Carr

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

— Saadi

The interpretation of thought as ""inner speech" has taken different forms, and has been used to clarify a variety of problems--thus problems…

— Wilfrid Sellars

“Direct and easy communications—freedom of speech in all forms and its broadest sense—has become vital to the very survival of a civilized…

— Anonymous

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing…

— Richard Cobden

Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows,…

— Rodney A. Smolla

“Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied sould of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is…

— Thomas Hardy

Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite…

— Simone Elkeles

Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's…

— Rush Limbaugh

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need…

— Benjamin Carson

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

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits…

— David Mamet

That the speech of self-disclosure should be translatable seems to me very odd, but I am convinced that it is. The conclusion…

— W. H. Auden

It seems to me it's perfectly possible to vehemently disagree with a piece of work and to say that it's offensive and…

— Salman Rushdie

The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of…

— David Abram

In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and…

— Andrew Sullivan

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much…

— Patricia MacLachlan

I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and…

— Anonymous

In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.

— Stephen Kinzer

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

— Edward Hoagland

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

— Ellen Goodman

“Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.”

— Amit Kalantri

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

— Anonymous

People go on about my speech but I've always had a speech impediment.

— James Toney

One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'

— Sam Horn

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

— Ned Rorem

“Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.”

— James Gavin

Getting a lot of applause, announcing military reforms and upgrades. It's a really good speech [of Donald Trump].

— Rush Limbaugh

We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match…

— Barack Obama

Democrats cannot conceive of "hate speech" towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it.

— Ann Coulter

We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

— David Frum

When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.

— Mitt Romney

A ban on a class of arms is not an 'incidental' regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of…

— Brett Kavanaugh