Speech Quotes

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I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to… — Marjane Satrapi
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. — Dan Savage
We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions.… — Luke Scott
Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. — Pete Seeger
Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime. — Frank Serpico
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes. — William Shakespeare
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. — George Bernard Shaw
You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear… — Donna Shalala
Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. — William Shatner
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an… — Sivananda
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. — Alan K. Simpson
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of… — Adam Smith
I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one. — Iain Duncan Smith
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's… — Stephen Sondheim
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. — Susan Sontag
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do… — Thomas Sowell
I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up… — Eliot Spitzer
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. — Adlai E. Stevenson
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. — Robert Louis Stevenson
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the… — Emanuel Swedenborg

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