Speech Quotes - Page 9

It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The First Amendment, for example, is fittingly celebrated for preventing Congress from "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion or "abridging the freedom of speech." The Second Amendment similarly appears to contain an express limitation on the government's authority.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

I came down the long road, even before I got here. Just to be where I am today is already a positive in my life. But to have something like this happen to me as well, I'm speechless.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?

My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even...malicious.

Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.