Speech Quotes · Page 56

Martin Luther King gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech, not the 'I Have a Plan' speech.

— Simon Sinek

Protesters can't violate First Amendment rights. Only the government can do that.

— Kirsten Powers

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

— Carl Sandburg

I have no problem with free speech, but free speech and then silencing your opposition - boy, I have a problem with…

— Tomi Lahren

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.”

— Tim Fargo

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

— Gore Vidal

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are…

— Diahann Carroll

…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered…

— Anonymous

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed,…

— Joseph Brodsky

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish…

— Winston Churchill

As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've…

— Killer Mike

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of…

— Sol Stein

The problem with restraining speech is, who gets to set the rules? If it's only okay in a certain time or place,…

— Huey Freeman

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of…

— Soren Kierkegaard

In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should…

— Talal Asad

Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should…

— Alan Dershowitz

The freedom of speech and the freedom of the press have not been granted to the people in order that they may…

— Samuel Gompers

It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic…

— Kenan Malik

Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute... I conclude my speech with the slogan…

— Hassan Nasrallah

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor.…

— David Hockney

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter…

— Dorothy Dix

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune,…

— Jonathan Swift

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do…

— Jerry Moran

Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands ...

— Stephen Colbert

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Nearly every politician plagiarizes their speeches, because nearly every politician has a speech writer do the work for them.

— Ana Kasparian

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be…

— Sophocles

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

— Joseph Addison

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

— Rob Lowe

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

— Herodotus

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities

— John Wesley

I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

— Bill Peterson

Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

— Laozi

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual…

— Anthony Trollope

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

— Evelyn Waugh

If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that…

— Anthea Butler