I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade) — Kate Spade Copy Share Image
Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it? — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We need to respect free speech, but we need to respect one another's rights to free speech, too. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
“How can the power of speech remain when you lie for your own ‘safeside’?” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb. — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
“People say: 'Let the facts speak for themselves'; they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a… — Brianna Wu Copy Share Image
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas… — Fred M. Vinson Copy Share Image
Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech.… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of identity. This is my Holy Trinity, each one an intrinsic aspect of my god:… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
“Our freedom of speech is not some cute, optional, anachronistic thing that you write about on a short answer quiz about school… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
I do not know what might be the most fitting description… I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I hate when I feel I have so much to say and can't put it into words. It's like standing on a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Conservatives should defend free speech - but we must not amplify it when it's blatantly grotesque. — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here. — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind. — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape! — Martin Zweig Copy Share Image
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
