Speech Quotes

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I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my… — Charles R. Swindoll
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times,… — Lewis Thomas
I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not… — Brad Thor
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. — Brad Thor
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading… — Pierre Trudeau
I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and… — Richard Trumka
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type… — Ted Turner
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. — Mark Twain
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. — Mark Twain
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and… — Mark Twain
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. — Gore Vidal
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. — Voltaire
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there… — Voltaire
I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought. — Jimmy Wales
Free speech includes the right to not speak. — Jimmy Wales
I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on. — Herschel Walker
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. — George Washington
Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make… — Harvey Weinstein

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