Speech Quotes · Page 9

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

— Chuck D

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song…

— Anonymous

Truth needs not flowers of speech.

— Alexander Pope

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

— Anonymous

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

— Kenneth Rexroth

New Rule: President Bush must stop acting like WE'RE the idiots. He gives speech after speech, and the theme is always the…

— Bill Maher

So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently, because it would be highly embarrassing if I…

— Shahrukh Khan

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

— Idi Amin

I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.

— Dianne Feinstein

“Fuck the lot of you and your hypocritical bullshit. You sit around spouting brotherhood. You don't know the first thing about being…

— A. Meredith Walters

[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string…

— Mary McGrory

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew

— Anonymous

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one…

— Etgar Keret

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the…

— John McCain

Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas…

— Elayne Boosler

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

— Ai Weiwei

Power should answer by action, not by speech.

— Austin O'Malley

We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement…

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

We travel the world, and our right to free speech is precious.

— Killer Mike

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing…

— Richard Cobden

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

— George III

“If these words did not exist, then liberation (moksha) would be attained naturally and spontaneously. In this current era of the time…

— Dada Bhagwan

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.

— Ethan Zuckerman

“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