Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Liberals] are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Without the freedom of expression the human species will never move forward. Never less but backwards, without the freedom to express ones… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has gotten rich, and she's made a lot of speeches, and she's get great book deals and so forth. But… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The big break from the past may come when speech recognition software is perfected. At that point we'll be able to write… — James Maguire Copy Share Image
The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
“Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you… — Lucien Bourjeily Copy Share Image
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the… — Tom Smothers Copy Share Image
American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech. — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk… — Rasmenia Massoud Copy Share Image
“the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a… — Plato Copy Share Image
Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek… — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Copy Share Image
I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate… — Judith Curry Copy Share Image
It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of… — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Speech is protected in the U.S., and at the risk of repeating a hackneyed aphorism, free speech is worthless unless it applies… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
“You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore you and we choose to… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
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