Speech Quotes

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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. — Frederick Douglass
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. — Peter Drucker
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. — Jimmy Durante
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled… — Dick Durbin
They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how… — Clint Eastwood
I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's… — Roger Ebert
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might… — Marian Wright Edelman
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit. — Eminem
I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there. — Brian Eno
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your… — Nora Ephron
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. — Epictetus
Silence is safer than speech. — Epictetus
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than… — Louis Farrakhan
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but… — William Feather
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all… — Federico Fellini
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or… — James Fenton
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and… — James Fenton
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that… — Gustave Flaubert

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