Speech Quotes

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

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

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.

Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave.

Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If you do not change your thoughts, you haven't changed their activity. And if you do not change their activity, the conditions of your life cannot change, for they are only bearing witness to the inner action of your mind.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put into language is indeed That which IS.

Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.

Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.

Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

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

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

When people are proud of their speech, be proud of your silence.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.