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In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - have stood… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas. — Lyndon B. Johnson
There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech,… — Lyndon B. Johnson
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a… — William Osler
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that,… — Saint Basil
American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get… — Marcus Garvey
George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each… — Will Rogers
Our mind is the foundation of all our actions, whether they are actions of body, speech, or mind, i.e., thinking. Whatever we think, say, or… — Nhat Hanh
When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art. — Chael Sonnen
I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need… — Morgan Freeman
This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation speech, where I… — Nick Kroll
You get to a certain moment where you realize all those humans who landed on the moon did so in between Chris [Nolan] being born… — Jonathan Nolan
If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful… — Mikhail Naimy
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free… — H. L. Mencken
The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh. — H. L. Mencken
In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with… — Khalil Gibran
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner.… — Neil Genzlinger

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