Speech Quotes - Page 27

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

I mean, there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme," not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.

Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue.

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful. This is one possible explanation of unlimited debate in the Senate.

There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of a superimposed function, it depends on fulfilling the requirements of this function thus it depends on those who control these requirements.

Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no reasonable person could ever have expected to hear in public were being heard all over the place.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.