“Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier… — Ptahhotep Copy Share Image
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“Rhiannon readied her speech. The speech she’d given more than once over the years to Éibhear and, when they were much younger,… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Years ago, the writers were telling me that I'd make the Hall of Fame, so I kind of prepared a speech. But… — Johnny Mize Copy Share Image
Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives… — C. Vann Woodward Copy Share Image
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
In a speech in Texas, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton 'easily the worst Secretary of State in the history of our country.'… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son,… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as… — Alice Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, "You know,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You are going to hear many things from Mr. Trump today in his speech on immigration. One, no amnesty. He is absolutely… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was… — Powers Boothe Copy Share Image
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
