Speech Quotes · Page 31

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

— Anonymous

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

— Benjamin Carson

“You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.”

— Tommy Smothers

I got on the high school speech team and everyday I would get up in front of the class and just start…

— Gabriel Iglesias

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

— Helene Cixous

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

— Mike Godwin

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.

— John Millington Synge

When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence.

— Luqman

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even…

— Robert H. Jackson

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of…

— Anonymous

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put…

— Mark Twain

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches…

— Kenneth Branagh

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the…

— Anna Deavere Smith

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather…

— Anonymous

If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an…

— Washington Allston

Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the…

— Gerhard Richter

I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very…

— Tony Abbott

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the…

— Robert E. Howard

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

— Thomas Pogge

George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like…

— Jimmy Fallon

Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful; without free speech progress…

— Charles Bradlaugh

There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you…

— Jonathan Zittrain

Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that.

— Clive Barker

Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.

— Ted Alexandro

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

— Stephen Fry

Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer.

— Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences…

— Eugene Mirman

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

— Deborah K. Ross

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

— Jef I Richards

We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

— Peggy Noonan

“The circumstances of these three - conduct, thoughts and speech, are constantly changing from moment to moment.   ”

— Dada Bhagwan

Computers can see, and understand what people say via speech recognition.

— Jeff Dean

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

— Dogen

I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me…

— Joey Barton

They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.

— Tom Smothers

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

— Epictetus

Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.

— Afonso Van-Dunem

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

— Ethan Zuckerman