Speech Quotes - Page 23

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the world were rioting because of it and burning embassies because of a cartoon. We would want to show our readers what all the fuss was about.

While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

The whole end of speech is to be understood.

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

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

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Free thought, free speech and a free press.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

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

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.