Top 1200 Commencement Speech Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes place in areas related to politics and policy-making by elected officials. That special risk justifies especially strong pro-speech judicial presumptions. It also justifies careful review whenever the speech in question seeks to shape public opinion, particularly if that opinion in turn will affect the political process and the kind of society in which we live.

Free speech should never mean hate speech.

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving winged feet toits god of art. Latin is the embodiment of the weighty and concentrated speech which is hammered and pressed and polished into the shape of its perfection, as the ethically minded Romans believed that the soul also should be wrought.

The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Pleasant speech yields joy to all, and observing this, is there any need for unpleasant speech?

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license," and they will define freedom out of existence.

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual.

Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech.

While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.

Hate speech can't be a part of free speech.

You can't be selective about freedom of speech. If you say you believe in freedom of speech you have to acknowledge the people whose views you disagree with, people whose views you may detest, nevertheless have the right to freedom of speech.

Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.

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.

I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one.

I wrote this speech thinking this was going to be it. It's not it. You guys went and screwed up my whole speech. We've got to come back here on Tuesday and drink some more beer.

Flag-burning is plain wrong, and I'll stand up for free speech - even speech I don't like.

The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and astrology.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.

I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find obnoxious.

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

Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

Liberals love to screech about 'free speech,' but it's pretty clear to most of us that they don't really tolerate any speech but theirs.

College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry.

Remember that free speech is about the government can't infringe on your free-speech right. It says nothing about an employer - and what they can do to your free speech right. You've got the right to say it. But if you're working for somebody, they have the right to do whatever they want as well.

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

My favorite commencement addresses are the ones that get real and don't make too many promises.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly among the spearmen.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Products are a form of speech, and free speech must be fiercely protected, even if we disagree with some of the voices.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

We have ways to protect the public when free speech crosses over in hate speech.

In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard.