Top 1200 Speech Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
We have the freedom of speech. We are able to hold hands in protest and stand up for what we believe in and have people hear what you have to say.
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.
The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.
Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice.
I have a long history of defending, and promoting, free speech and open debate - especially (especially!) within Muslim communities.
I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.
There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.
Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.
Free speech is carelessly tossed to one side in order to silence views and people that liberals label as intolerant.
I fundamentally agree with the critical nature of Israeli democracy, which embraces the core notion of free speech.
I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented.
Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech.
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.
In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.
First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.
We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.
Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.
All the big powers... they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.
Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
I spent three years at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, which I enjoyed very much.
I could use a Chris Matthews-level speech writer to script everything I say. That would be good.
Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
Somehow, defending my liberal values of free speech, liberty, and rights of the individual has become a conservative position.
Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.
The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.
I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.
Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.
I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.
Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.
I understand freedom of speech but if I made my living spreading rumors about people, my family wouldn't claim me.
The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.
Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.
