Speech Quotes

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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. — Thomas Carlyle
Speech is silver, silence is golden. — Thomas Carlyle
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol… — Thomas Carlyle
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech. — John Mortimer
The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs. — Russell Baker
Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or… — William Francis Henry King
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age… — John Leo
Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success. — Linda Bradford Raschke
Jeb Bush gave a speech yesterday. He had a pretty rough time. He accidentally said that ISIS has 200,000 men instead of 20,000, and then… — Jimmy Fallon
Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech. You can keep… — Nouman Ali Khan
Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But… — Laozi
Speech is the mirror of the soul. — Publilius Syrus
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning… — Charles Caleb Colton
Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior. — Saadi
There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words… — Charles Kingsley
Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow. — Walt Whitman
Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been… — Matthew Simpson
We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ? — Billy Graham
The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore… — William Jennings Bryan

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