Speech Quotes

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.

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

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.

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.

Speech is great, but silence is greater.

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.

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Jenner] and me growing up, good words to live by.

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.

From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.

Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

When Donald Trump won the election because when I came into the show, I said, I think this guy can win. This was when he first came down that escalator. He gave his first speech.

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with pride-but rather in the little kindnesses from day to day.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.

The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.

I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.

The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don’t want the public knowing about.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.