ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober. — Bonar Law Copy Share Image
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled. — Kin Hubbard Copy Share Image
“again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a away that others love to speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. — Shane Leslie Copy Share Image
“Every time you speak, you are either building up yourself for the better or you are limiting yourself for the worse. Words… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Under President Obama, the IRS formed a committee to aggressively go after churches and other religious organizations using the Johnson Amendment of… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
“ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world,… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech;… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Obama will win the 2012 election, thanks in part to the tech community rallying behind him due to issues like SOPA, visas,… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share Image
The United States government approaches patient choice in medication as Singapore does free speech: its pronouncements sound reasonable and tolerant until you… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“A single word can brighten the face of one who knows the value of words. Ripened in silence, a single word acquires… — Yunus Emre Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time tells the story of a cosmologist whose speech is interrupted by a little old lady… — George Will Copy Share Image
“But we must be completely clear...if nationalism is truly the hallmark of a people in the prime of its youth and energies,… — Freidrich Reck-Malleczewen Copy Share Image
If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
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