Speech Quotes

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

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.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.