Speech Quotes

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.

Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.

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.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

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.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.