Speech Quotes

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

A great speech is literature.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

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?

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.

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

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.

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

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.