Speech Quotes · Page 36

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

— Benjamin Franklin

“I can't forget that stupid, fucking hologram speech. THAT'S why I did dope.”

— Carrie Fisher

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

— Stephen Fry

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

— Hannah More

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

— Nat Hentoff

“Speech one may regret, Silence no sorrow begets, Humility be born before honour, Soft answer turns wrath’s corner”

— Munindra Misra

“Forgiveness is not to be given by speaking. Forgiveness is natural and spontaneously there. Spontaneous forgiveness is a sign of having attained…

— Dada Bhagwan

Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship…

— Juan Cole

When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or…

— Frances Osborne

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we…

— Allan Loeb

One of my delays was in speech and speech pronunciation, and also the auditory processing issue just means I really struggle as…

— Amanda Gorman

I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I believe America went wrong in terms of respecting the First Amendment, the state of free speech on American college campuses and…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain…

— Walter Dean Myers

It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or…

— J. C. Ryle

I should be able to express moral views on social issues - especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization…

— Kirk Cameron

Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension…

— David Abram

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they…

— Walter Lippmann

“The Anatomy of Conflict: If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there is no respect then there is…

— Shannon L. Alder

You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom…

— Glenn Beck

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best…

— Beatrice Webb

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

— Zell Miller

I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.

— Gabrielle Giffords

“Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence. Speech is the harvest of thought,”

— Grenville Kleiser

San Francisco hosted the first medical marijuana job fair. The keynote speech was titled, 'Jobs and How to Avoid Getting One.'

— Jay Leno

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

— Medea Benjamin

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

— Anonymous

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

— Michel de Montaigne

I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.

— Jennifer Carpenter

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

— Confucius

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

— Alan Hirsch

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

— George Eliot

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

— John C. Maxwell

“Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.”

— Amit Kalantri

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

— Thomas Carlyle

“[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.”

— Joseph Brodsky