Speech Quotes

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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe… — Samuel Johnson
Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don't miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious in your speech.… — Paul the Apostle
The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In… — William O. Douglas
The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is the message of… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as… — Thomas Carlyle
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and… — Theodore Dalrymple
Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas
The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous. — Confucius
It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you… — Dario Fo
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world — Alison Lurie
That is why, as one who values the U.S. - Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime Minister's speech -… — Nancy Pelosi
During the Q&A periods after my speeches, it is the men who say to me, "Help me understand how I am going to balance my… — Vicki Donlan
We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a proper government should… — Mario
Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life… — Scott Schuman
When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment. — Terry Pratchett
Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say â€˜Heil Hitler.â€™ — Isaac Asimov
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. — Hesiod
Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down]… — Alice Munro

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