How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcome… “This attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism.… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and… — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion,… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
[Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“I’m pretty sure most of them sincerely believe that the First Amendment actually means they can say anything they want without consequences.… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
I got to watch Frank Capra, in his eighties, in action. You read all the stories about Frank Capra fighting with the… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
We're already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being and their feeling and their way of realising everything and every… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of… — Jim Jordan Copy Share Image
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has… — Denise Caruso Copy Share Image
I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a… — Beverly LaHaye Copy Share Image
We must hold the CCP accountable and protect the freedoms of religion and speech for all. Our athletes, and our world, deserve… — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, when he gives his speeches, talks like a populist. And he talks to middle class and working America and poor… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
In a democracy, everyone has the right to an opinion and to freedom of expression. That doesn't give anyone the right to… — Shatrughan Sinha Copy Share Image
“He spoke in a trembling voice that didn’t seem to be entirely in sync with the movement of his lips. That’s because… — Sorin Suciu Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even… — Yishan Wong Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
If you're offended, what the Supreme Court has said the answer to speech you do not like is not less speech, it's… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
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In order to defend freedom of expression, we each need to exercise personal responsibility. We need to make good choices about how… — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
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