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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon… — William Butler Yeats
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be… — Louis D. Brandeis
As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech… — John Keats
Speech is the small change of silence. — George Meredith
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are the noisy, unnatural… — Beverley Nichols
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Speech is great, but silence is greater. — Thomas Carlyle
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we… — Hannah Arendt
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches… — William Whipple
Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put it into speech.… — P.G. Wodehouse
IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?' — Emma Watson
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then… — Adam Michnik
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is… — Dave Reichert
They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out." — Michael J. Fox
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no… — Theodore Dreiser
When I go to one of those singles dating parties I believe myself to be a bowl of fruit. When I talk to potential dates,… — Amanda Holden
A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. — George Santayana
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the… — Hugo Black

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