Speech Quotes · Page 37

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

— Ann Coulter

“It is a sense of possessiveness and inner attachment (parigraha) for speech to ask, "How did I speak?”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Does he not realize that facial expressions are supposed to accompany speech?”

— Colleen Hoover

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

— Bela Kun

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

— Donna Brazile

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

— Madeleine Albright

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

— Jasper Fforde

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

— Drake

No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I…

— Gareth Gates

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear…

— George Eliot

The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from…

— Edward Hirsch

There are certain things you must not say in spite of the fact that supposedly democracy means free speech. No. You are…

— Chris Eubank Sr

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and…

— Benazir Bhutto

Our legislators have become a set of "whores" open to the highest bidders. The problem is that if we try to limit…

— Philip Kotler

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the…

— William O. Douglas

They're Democrats always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. Frankly, I'm not a big…

— Ann Coulter

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance.…

— Thomas Carlyle

In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist…

— Judith Butler

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity.…

— Richard Posner

It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform…

— John Searle

Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like…

— Chris Pine

“To me, a king is a lighthouse. A guide who can cast his glow across his kingdom and bring every last one…

— Soman Chainani

I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy…

— Albert Einstein

Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the…

— Orhan Pamuk

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

— Lord Hailsham

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

— Paula Poundstone

Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

— Agnes Repplier

“He didn't say that. He read what was given to him in a speech.”

— Richard Darman

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

— Marshall McLuhan

Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech.

— Cal Thomas

I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

— Joseph Conrad

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

— George Will

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

— Isaac of Nineveh

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

— Bill Vaughan

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If Five’s speech – clearly for our benefit – has revealed anything, it’s that he’s pretty much lost his mind.”

— Pittacus Lore

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

— John Morrison