Speech Quotes · Page 38

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

— Mike Godwin

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

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

— Jef I Richards

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

Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.

— Rick Ungar

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

— Afonso Van-Dunem

It is called the First Amendment. ...Simple words marching in seried ranks. Compact, concise. To the point. Clear and pure. It's freedom's…

— Jack Valenti

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the…

— Anonymous

What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only…

— Robert Browning

Joe Biden will speak to the nation's largest gay rights group during a human rights convention on Friday. Then on Saturday, he…

— Jimmy Fallon

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try…

— Charles R. Swindoll

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a…

— Haylie Duff

In an interview, Hillary Clinton said she likes nearly every flavor of ice cream. When he heard this, Chris Christie said 'Hey,…

— Conan O'Brien

So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently, because it would be highly embarrassing if I…

— Shahrukh Khan

The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about…

— B. C. Forbes

In the course of my day, I'll probably go through four pairs of shoes! I start the day in flats.I'll change into…

— Leah D. Daughtry

“Any nation allowing its people the right of freedom of speech is powerless to defend itself against enemies masquerading as patriotic; and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every…

— Lois Lowry

“There’s no question about freedom of speech when everyone thinks exactly the same and no one says anything out of the accepted…

— Keith Harmon

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…

— Oliver Sacks

Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action")…

— Lee Wyndham

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

— Ethan Zuckerman

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

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

— Dogen

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

— Jeff Dean

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

— Joey Barton

Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.

— Ai Weiwei

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

— Amit Kalantri

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

— Mark Twain

“There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.”

— Anonymous

It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“By not hurting anyone through one's mind, speech and action, all the vows (vrat) are encompassed in this!”

— Dada Bhagwan

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to…

— Will Rogers

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

— John Mellencamp

Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech.

— Nell Scovell