Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I'll defend child pornography, how about that? What's wrong with seeing some child pornography? What if you watch child pornography because you… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier… — Ptahhotep Copy Share Image
For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
You know my beautiful speech has made you see me in a whole new and even more attractive light. You totally think… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk… — Dick Clark Copy Share Image
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back… — Joseph L. Mankiewicz Copy Share Image
I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
As much as the Democrats try to change the subject, this election will be about Barack Obama, period. Mitt's speech last night… — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
That's part of what I touch on in my [UN] speech - when assaults happen on women and girls in these fragile… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
Years ago, the writers were telling me that I'd make the Hall of Fame, so I kind of prepared a speech. But… — Johnny Mize Copy Share Image
In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son,… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives… — C. Vann Woodward Copy Share Image
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
In a speech in Texas, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton 'easily the worst Secretary of State in the history of our country.'… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, "You know,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was… — Powers Boothe Copy Share Image
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