Speech Quotes - Page 25

Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?

Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.

You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you create. If a candidate can't give a 10-minute speech and have reporters reaching for their pens in the first 90 seconds, he probably shouldn't be running.

We shouldn't have free speech.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.

The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.

A great speech is literature.

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches

Free speech not only lives, it rocks!

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.