Speech Quotes - Page 33

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.

Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.

The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.

He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.

Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection].

Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

I no longer believe in freedom of speech.

Even Dionysus's welcome-home speech wasn't enough to dampen my spirits. "Yes, yes, so the little brat didn't get himself killed and now he'll have an even bigger head. Well, huzzah for that. In other announcements, there will be no canoe races this Saturday.

Think 'free speech,' not 'free beer.'

It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure of which people can be part.

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.