Speech Quotes - Page 24

There is a time and a place for creativity.

The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.

Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.

According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.

Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.

Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

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

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.