As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent; For if thou utt'rest but a single word, A cough or hem, to cross… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on… They would rather make a speech than a… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Liberalism had come to mean spending more on everything-speech police, failed poverty programs that reward dependence, a bigger nanny state telling us… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
This was another subject of criticism. She was being paid, as I recall, during the 1940's, what was then a princely sum,… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at… — Kurt Huber Copy Share Image
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement… — Benjamin Lee Whorf Copy Share Image
I do not even know where Bill Clinton delivered his speech and I know nothing about any funds. Both parties simply use… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double the numbers now. Can you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.' — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
You go to your best friends wedding and give a dirty speech about thier relationship but it turns out your at an… — Mayla Copy Share Image
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
In the world of speeches and orations, especially historical ones, the persistent misquotation is understandable. You hear a speech. You misremember or… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That… — Frank Hague Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
We will hear more details on [Donald] Trump's plans on addressing illegal immigration in the speech tonight, including what Trump plans to… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
As human voice and instrument blend in one harmony, as human soul and body blend in each act of feeling, thought, or… — Archibald Alexander Hodge Copy Share Image
People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
We should protect free speech by repealing offences that stifle legitimate debate - like 'glorification' of terrorism and religious hatred - but… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
There are some of us who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. For us of the minority, the opportunity… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if… — David Platt Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
When I need journalistic honesty, I have to turn to Al Jazeera, why is that? One cannot even deny the Holocaust in… — Remi Kanazi Copy Share Image
Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's… — Dolores Hitchens Copy Share Image