Speech Quotes - Page 14

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

Happiness is speechless.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.

Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free to speak as we choose without fear of prosecution or persecution, but we are not free to speak as we choose without consequence.

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

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

They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near everything on drugs!

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.