Speech Quotes

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It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. — Abe Fortas
The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a… — Robert H. Jackson
Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it… — Frank Lautenberg
Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most… — Peter Elbow
Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and… — John Stott
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. — Bill Bradley
Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put intoÂ language is… — Anandamayi Ma
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were… — Edward Coke
Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth… — D. H. Lawrence
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. — Carl Sandburg
You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. — Eugene H. Peterson
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of… — Hugo Black
Ben Crenshaws, Ive got a good feeling speech. — Steve Norman
A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous. — Oliver Herford
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Martin Luther King gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech, not the 'I Have a Plan' speech. — Simon Sinek
Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention? — Unknown Author
The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more… — Jan Neruda
There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage,… — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech. — E L Doctorow

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