Speech Quotes

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

Today President Obama gave a major speech where he defended his handling of the economy. And there were tons of people in the audience, you know, since nobody had to be at work.

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

I am speechless: I have no speech

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision...In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is regulated in Europe, you know?

Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.

Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do!

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands.

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.

It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcome… “This attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism. We must not be silenced.

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover

Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.