Speech Quotes

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

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

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

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.

We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment.

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.

The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.