Speech Quotes · Page 39

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

— Judy Gold

My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.

— Laura Harrier

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

— Anonymous

What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?

— John Hagee

It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.

— Richard Branson

A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

— Gautama Buddha

Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.

— Amal Clooney

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

— William Jennings Bryan

Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it…

— Jon Jones

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really…

— David Antin

“That’s the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of…

— Neil Gaiman

I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of…

— William Cowper

Beyond speech and mind, Into the river of ever-effulgent Light My heart dives. Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia, Are opened…

— Sri Chinmoy

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the…

— Abe Fortas

At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his…

— Bob Menendez

Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers…

— Bob Newhart

We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock…

— Cate Blanchett

Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free…

— Benjamin Franklin

The light of Christ illuminates the laboratory, his speech is the fount of communication, he makes possible the study of humans in…

— Mark Noll

Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is…

— Sylvie Simmons

We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in…

— Nguyen Minh Triet

[Persons] who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union [have] the right to enter every other state, whenever…

— Jack Kevorkian

They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and…

— Bennett Cerf

I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I…

— Max Muller

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech

— Lev S. Vygotsky

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

— Salman Rushdie

People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot.

— Kenyon Martin

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

— Jeffrey Rosen

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

— Alan Dershowitz

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

— C. S. Lewis

I could make a speech about death. But words are just not enough. Therefore, there's not much I can say.

— Tahj Wilson

I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.

— Ted Lieu

If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!

— Anthea Butler

The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.

— Gregory Benford

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

— Julie Delpy

“Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

— Pat Paulsen

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

— Winston Churchill

I thought he [Tim Kaine] was terrible. I thought his speech was terrible.

— Donald Trump