Speech Quotes

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I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches… — John Ashcroft
[Alan Berg's] memory haunts many people, even those who never heard him on the radio, because his death could be read as a message: Be… — Roger Ebert
We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment… — Susan Brownmiller
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you… — Elbert Hubbard
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies. — A J P Taylor
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved… — James Earl Jones
Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship to reality. ...You… — Juan Cole
A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech. — William Butler Yeats
Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. — Samuel Rogers
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. — Anthony Kennedy
There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and… — David Foster Wallace
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying,… — June Jordan
It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged. Having submerged themselves… — Ann Althouse
Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best,… — Michael Eric Dyson
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. — Gautama Buddha
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant. — Gautama Buddha
Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken. — Gautama Buddha
The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious. — Gautama Buddha
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for… — Gautama Buddha

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