Speech Quotes · Page 52

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

— Idi Amin

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

— Vincent McNabb

The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

— Benjamin E. Sasse

I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.

— Mike O'Malley

Speeches? I don't ever feel like I'm giving a speech. I don't look at myself as a motivational speaker.

— Jim Harbaugh

“For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,”

— Amit Kalantri

There is no asterisk in the Constitution that says 'except for hate speech.'

— Alan Colmes

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

— Henry Hyde

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help…

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…

— Roland Barthes

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say…

— Richard Darman

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech,…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Barack Obama's convention speech in 2004 had made him a political star, and he arrived in Iowa to crowds unseen in caucus history.

— John Dickerson

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one…

— Etgar Keret

Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is…

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting…

— Michael Copps

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

— Bob Newhart

The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and…

— Harold Pinter

Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new…

— Roger Ascham

I've looked at all of Hitler's speeches thinking that there's gotta be one where he's 'I'm Hitler!', but there weren't any. His…

— Christopher McQuarrie

“From incoherent barkings of desire, man can advance to distinct speech now that, labelling the object with a name, he is able…

— Georges Bataille

The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a…

— Tom Lehrer

“Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot.

— Eric Stonestreet

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

— Fred Wilson

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly…

— Sophocles

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

— Wallace Stevens

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten…

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

— Anonymous

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it…

— Dennis Potter

I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy.

— Hasan Minhaj

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

— Rob Kampia

Ideas are inflammable. This doesn't mean, of course, that they shouldn't be expressed freely.

— Norah Vincent

“other forms of conversation will always remain. Speech, for example, and writing.”

— Neil Postman

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.

— Thom Yorke

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

— Jack Kevorkian

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

— Byron White

I was 5 when I got the speech about how I would have to work harder and longer than everyone else because…

— Sabaa Tahir