Speech Quotes · Page 17

Excessive speech dishonours a man

— Hazrat Ali

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

— Ovid

“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”

— Amit Kalantri

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

— Anonymous

Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Climate change is not an excuse to silence political speech.

— Luther Strange

“The speech of flowers excels the flowers of speech.”

— George Harrison

Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.

— Tim Bray

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

— Amit Kalantri

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

— Horace

I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.

— Bill Maher

I didn't go off speech on Mexico; I want off speech on virtually everything.

— Donald Trump

'Free speech' isn't speech at all if it's being used without listening, attention, or care.

— Timothy Morton

“Speech is a rolling machine that always stretches the feelings it expresses.”

— Gustave Flaubert

I'm all for free speech, and I don't need my viewpoint to be the only viewpoint.

— Brett Gelman

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

— Bela Lugosi

Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science,…

— George Henry Lewes

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm giving a speech in front of my old high school classmates, and they start laughing…

— Dustin Milligan

President Obama gave a big speech on climate change. He believes global warming is getting worse because apparently he's sweating a lot…

— Jay Leno

It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have.…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Have a relentless commitment to consistency of message. It might be the 15th time you’ve given the speech, but some people may…

— David M. Cote

The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and…

— Lindy Booth

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think it's absolutely undeniable that nobody really advocates for complete total speech without any consequence or absolute freedom of expression. There's…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp…

— Barack Obama

My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do…

— H. L. Mencken

Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to…

— Grover Norquist

I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates…

— Milos Forman

Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private…

— Jacques Barzun

Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom…

— Albert Einstein

The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First…

— Alex Kozinski

It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts…

— Jonathan Rauch

“Routine ruins the life, variety vitalise the life.”

— Amit Kalantri

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

— Henry David Thoreau

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war.

— Lindsey Graham

Free speech should never mean hate speech.

— Luciana Berger

“An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.”

— Amit Kalantri

When I give a speech, I tell it like a story.

— Brad Parscale