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Speech Quotes by Louis D. Brandeis
- Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech…
- If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be…
- The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as…
- It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
- What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far…
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- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak… — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else. — Drew Barrymore
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- If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for… — Jacques Barzun
- First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil
- I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but… — Kate Adie