Speech Quotes

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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted — H. L. Mencken
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an… — Mark Twain
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught… — George Washington
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. — Ambrose Bierce
I feel sorry for Obama because he's still got to fight the innate racism of Americans. I mean, did you see his first speech, when… — Frankie Boyle
Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore… — John Aubrey
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning… — Leo Tolstoy
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence… — Albert Schweitzer
Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands ... — Stephen Colbert
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help to bring about… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered. — Peggy Noonan
When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated name, on the… — Louis Edouard Fournier
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one. — Winston Churchill
Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken… — Keith Olbermann
Freedom of speech implies the world isnâ€™t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way. — Ai Weiwei
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one. — Ai Weiwei
If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain — Ai Weiwei
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country:… — Bruce Chatwin
I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention,… — Susan Estrich
In the chapter on study we considered the importance of observing ourselves to see how often our speech is a frantic attempt to explain and… — Richard J. Foster

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