Communication Quote by Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

— Mason Cooley

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

— James G. Watt

Speech is the small change of silence.

— George Meredith

Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by…

— Stephen Hawking

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

— Thomas Carlyle

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

— Anna Quindlen

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

— Anthony Kennedy

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

— Samuel Johnson

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we…

— Henry David Thoreau

Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Speech is oft repented, silence never

— Danish Proverb