Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Anyone who can't tell the difference between a joke and hate speech is just stupid. — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
Imageboards are the most important medium for free speech on the Internet. — Fredrick Brennan Copy Share Image
If you have ever read my columns, you know how important free speech is to me... and how important it should be… — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or… — Dennis Skinner Copy Share Image
It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious. — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“Prince's words had not been meant as a warning. Rather, he had been playing. He had been pretending. He had been speaking… — André Alexis Copy Share Image
Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason - our most cherished right. But it often creates muddy and uncomfortable… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting';… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin was delivering a speech and she said 'refudiate.' It's not a word – you have refute and repudiate, and she… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Without the freedom of expression the human species will never move forward. Never less but backwards, without the freedom to express ones… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“The big break from the past may come when speech recognition software is perfected. At that point we'll be able to write… — James Maguire Copy Share Image
If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has gotten rich, and she's made a lot of speeches, and she's get great book deals and so forth. But… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
“I have not the power adequately to describe them without committing a breach of the laws of decent speech.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country...but the profits...skyrocket... — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say. — Ingrid Bergman Copy Share Image
The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words. — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
does one ever say the same thing in the same way to two different people? — Naomi Mitchison Copy Share Image
Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image