Speech Quotes · Page 94

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the…

— Abe Fortas

Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen`s Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind.

— Jason Becker

The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or…

— Tom Stoppard

For the Oscars, I had a speech in my hand, and I just knew if I opened the piece of paper, I…

— Susanne Bier

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.…

— Frank Zappa

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it…

— Hugo Black

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

— Ann Coulter

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Positive vocabulary is like good soil. By speaking and being positive we can enrich the lives of others.”

— Julius Veal

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks…

— William Shakespeare

Our Supreme Court has lifted the practice of buying legislation to the level of a constitutional principle by repeatedly protecting corporate spending…

— Thomas Pogge

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

— Bob Kerrey

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First…

— Jeffrey Tayler

For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a…

— Elizabeth George

Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover

— Martin Luther

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

— William Safire

A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.

— William T. Piper

Believe me, it is no time for words when the wounds are fresh and bleeding; no time for homilies when the lightning's…

— George Horace Lorimer

I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of…

— Jeanette Winterson

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not…

— Aristotle

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

— Benjamin Franklin

No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper,…

— William O. Douglas

When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules…

— N.D. Wilson