Speech Quotes

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Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect. — Criss Jami
History does seem to repeat itself hence it's mindboggling to still hear the 'avoid all negative people' speeches from, of all people, supposedly important spiritual… — Criss Jami
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there… — Criss Jami
Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature… — Albert Einstein
Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the… — Marcus Aurelius
The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public… — Winston Churchill
A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of his… — Jean de la Bruyere
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all… — William C. Bryant
The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of… — Pierre Trudeau
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights. — George Will
The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting… — George Will
The First Amendment's language leaves no room for inference that abridgments of speech and press can be made just because they are slight. That Amendment… — Hugo Black
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. — John Kenneth Galbraith
If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the… — Robert Kennedy
The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion… — Robert Kennedy
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a… — William Hazlitt
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of… — Bill Vaughan
It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. — Louis D. Brandeis

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