Speech Quotes

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We shouldn't have free speech. — Robin Quivers
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they… — Ma Jian
The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech? — Rob Kampia
I no longer believe in freedom of speech. — Rob Delaney
When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times,… — Dylan Moran
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French. — Barbara Tuchman
A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and… — Robert Reich
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as… — Beatrix Campbell
Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Grecianâ€™s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a… — Charles Caleb Colton
The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight. — Homer
Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom… — Boris Yeltsin
Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him… — Fethullah Gulen
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help… — Evelyn Waugh
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
[Persons] who are recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union [have] the right to enter every other state, whenever they pleased... full… — Jack Kevorkian
I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate. — Dianne Feinstein
A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can… — Ann Coulter
[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of… — George Will
It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you… — Thomas Sowell

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