Speech Quotes - Page 4

I like the free-speech stuff, the political-correctness stuff.

It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.

In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now grasped is not, in its clearness, the shadowy thing that was.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Prana... is the spirit of mantra. Mantra in turn is the expression of prana. Whatever most engages our prana or vital energy becomes the main subject of our speech.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Let your speech be true and sweet.

Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

True silence is really endless speech.

There is no freedom of speech if you're a conservative.

Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener bust as a co-performer.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

Thought is the fountain of speech.