Speech Quotes · Page 20

Hate speech can't be a part of free speech.

— Arun Jaitley

“Men employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

— Voltaire

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

— Susan Griffin

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

— Anonymous

Speech happens to not be his language.

— Madame de Stael

I had a stutter when I was a young. I went to speech therapy.

— Zach Ertz

I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another

— John Ashbery

In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

— Pliny the Younger

It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

— Voltaire

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

— Barney Frank

My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.

— Charlene Weir

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three,…

— John Morley

Violence is never an acceptable outcome in the exercise of free speech.

— Phil Scott

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

— Voltaire

There will be no more protest. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia.…

— Anonymous

Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Religious expression must at least be afforded an equal playing field. Currently, the playing field is not level. Religious expression and practices…

— Mathew Staver

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind…

— Stephen Chbosky

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that…

— Winston Churchill

Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their…

— Torquato Tasso

The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of…

— Joseph Conrad

Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the…

— Aristotle

We [in USA] have people honestly believing that, if a president calls a war, you have to shut up and sing. That…

— Phil Donahue

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in…

— Adam Michnik

Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right…

— Paul Kurtz

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a…

— John Steinbeck

I think that it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think…

— Margaret Chase Smith

In the U.S., the country that has always been lecturing the world about the value of freedoms - of freedom of speech,…

— Margarita Simonyan

Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to…

— Gaddafi

Speech is always bolder than action.

— Friedrich Schiller

“Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.

— Genevieve Taggard

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.

— Anthony Horowitz

Power should answer by action, not by speech.

— Austin O'Malley

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

— Maajid Nawaz

“Hunger gives flavour to the food.”

— Amit Kalantri

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger