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Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/post/santorum-says-he-almost-threw-up-after-reading-jfk-speech-on-separation-of-church-and-state/2012/02/26/gIQA91hubR_blog.html) — Michael C. Burgess
Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot. — Joe Strummer
My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application… — Clara Barton
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? — Dennis Potter
Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the… — Peggy Noonan
Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about… — Terry Goodkind
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his — Kenneth Burke
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. — J L Austin
The most effective way to combat speech you donâ€™t like is with speech. — Peter Salovey
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler… — Henry David Thoreau
It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcomeâ€¦ â€œThis attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism. We must not… — Marine Le Pen
P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a… — Herschel Walker
Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time. — Scott Simon
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to… — James M. Cain
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s â€˜I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymenâ€“â€“Whites and Blacksâ€“â€“to recognize that racial… — Aberjhani
Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying. — Lady Starlight
There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence. — Newton Lee
Speech at the Ministerial Conference in Boston (at books.google.com/books?id=LXkYAAAAYAAJ&dq=theodore%20parker%20boston%20kidnapping%20gannett&lr=&pg=PA167&ci=70,748,854,407&source=bookclip#v=onepage&q&f=false) — Ezra Stiles
The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention...these materials are often lacking in published therapy… — Linda Armstrong

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