Speech Quotes - Page 29

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech.

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities.

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.

Silence in woman is like speech in man.

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

Gorbachev's administration was amazingly politically naïve, inexperienced and irresponsible towards the country. It was not governance but a thoughtless renunciation of power. The admiration of the West in return only strengthened his conviction that his approach was right. But let us be clear that it was Mikhail Gorbachev, and not Boris Yeltsin, as is now widely being claimed, who first gave freedom of speech and movement to the citizens of Russia.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.