“You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore you and we choose to… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk… — Rasmenia Massoud Copy Share Image
We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech. — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate… — Judith Curry Copy Share Image
“the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a… — Plato Copy Share Image
Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek… — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Copy Share Image
It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerated - and I… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people mistake fire in the belly for too much pepperoni pizza the night before. They make a great speech and people… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. I… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The worst way to defend our freedom is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly during times… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer… offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living."… — John Leo Copy Share Image
The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient… — Socrates Copy Share Image
A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't… — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it,… — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
“Empowerment is our journey from adversity to strength. To all survivors out there: Your resilience is your superpower, and your story is… — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
Aside from the collective gain that comes from that free interchange of ideas, there is a direct personal value for the individual… — Charles Rembar Copy Share Image
Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
We made sure that Ian Gwyn Hughes from the media department gave a speech about the anthem. We translated it into English,… — Rob Page Copy Share Image
“Speech is the body part of thinking, the voice of the mind. Writing is the blood and mind mixing to speak through… — Lenora Champagne Copy Share Image
The assertion fallacy is the fallacy of confusing the conditions for the performance of the speech act of assertion with the analysis… — John Searle Copy Share Image
“One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key… — John H. Van Vleck Copy Share Image
Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
I remember when I was young, there was an older boy who was physically and mentally disabled. He had a speech impediment… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge raised security alert to a code red. Apparently Howard Dean has escaped. Did you see Dean's crazed… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Donald Trump and the First Amendment, it's not a beautiful match; it's not a match made in heaven. Between the free speech… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
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