When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that. From… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Remember in the forms of speech comes change Within a thousand years, and words that then Were well esteemed, seem foolish now… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I'm just going to take this in a minute. The wrestling world, we're kind of our own breed and different from maybe… — Amy Dumas Copy Share Image
Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I bet we'll see a lot of demagoguery [in Donald Trump speech] about the 10,000 Syrians that [Barack] Obama has allowed to… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
I shall develop the thesis that anyone acting communicatively must, in performing any speech act, raise universal validity claims and suppose that… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“When I left, Mr. Chairman, I had the constitutional right to freedom of speech. Has that right been stripped from the American… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
“I want everyone to get plenty of rest tonight, because tomorrow, we make plans to bury the new council chair. And don't… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Never drink more than one cocktail before giving a talk. True, the drinks may relax you, but they may also slur your… — Teresa Bloomingdale Copy Share Image
There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for… — Lewis F. Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
If you actually believe in free speech and not simply the free distribution of other people's intellectual property, you should let journalists,… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
“It is necessary for those who are sensitive to remain silent. However, rather than remaining silent, it is much better if it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing.… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name… — Susan Brownmiller Copy Share Image