At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want...… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can't cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him… — Julie Harris Copy Share Image
the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will… — Zeno Vendler Copy Share Image
The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Everything brought forward in favor of Socialism during the last hundred years, in thousands of writings and speeches, all the blood which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The value of free speech lies not just in the protection of popular opinions but in the shelter it provides for dissenting… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
“Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“How delighted would be all the kings, czars and führers of the past (and commissars of the present) to know that censorship… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All that you speak is considered as egoism. Speech is open egoism. It is 'double the egoism' to say, "I have done,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I can do an hour-long speech about Democrats taking African Americans for granted, and I'd have a line behind me of very… — Emanuel Cleaver Copy Share Image
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream'… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice,… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes… — Hank Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to… — Bradley A. Smith Copy Share Image
Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new… — Ed Gillespie Copy Share Image
In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
Donald Trump giving a speech on Islam is like me giving a speech titled, 'The Best Haircuts to Have If You Really… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image