Speech Quotes

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

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 what has transpired thus far.

I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

Prana... is the spirit of mantra. Mantra in turn is the expression of prana. Whatever most engages our prana or vital energy becomes the main subject of our speech.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Let your speech be true and sweet.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.

Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.

True silence is really endless speech.

There is no freedom of speech if you're a conservative.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that original light which has no beginning. They can illuminate. They do not need tongues or ears, for they can communicate without speech, in thought.

Speech is the voice of the heart.

Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.

Speak briefly and to the point.

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.