Speech Quotes - Page 28

New York Times v. Sullivan was about the suppression of speech in the South [during the 1960s]. Today's version of suppression is just another verse of the same song.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.

Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.

Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.

It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.