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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
When Donald Trump in one speech said I love the poorly educated - which was a remarkable thing to say - he was saying those are my people.
I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
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
Direct and easy communications — freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense — has become vital to the very survival of a civilized humanity.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.
If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.
No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.
I realized very quickly that the main thing that the left was not in favor of was free speech - that there was an intolerance about different ideas and opinions.
A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.
The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.
In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.
[Liberals] are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment.
Even relatively tolerant countries fine and jail people for expressing heterodox views. America uniquely protects speech.
I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?'
Gather a shell from the strewn beach
And listen at its lips: they sigh
The same desire and mystery,
The echo of the whole sea's speech.
When I heard Martin Luther King's speech, 'I Have a Dream,' I reflected on the fact that much of the success of that movement was driven by the unity of the church.
The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.
When someone praises me for some speech uploaded on YouTube, I politely tell them I've been acting for many years.
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
I have MS and am heat intolerant so it is tricky. It is affecting my spasms and affects my speech - which is annoying because I like talking.
If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
I think that freedom of speech is just that, and groups have the right to support or oppose issues that are going to affect them as well as individuals do.
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.
I defected to South Korea in search of freedom of speech and movement. I had longed to put my feet on this soil, even in my dreams.
Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't exist.
It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.
When I can find a story that explores something that I don't know what I think, I've got a play. If I knew the answer, I would write a speech or an essay.
Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.
Yisrael Beiteinu has no objection to the nonviolent expression of opinion. It is violent speech that forms a clear and present danger that we refuse to tolerate.
We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.
By silencing speech, the new Left makes life more dangerous by leaving violence as the only option. Maybe that's what they want.
My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved. Regardless of the good in those ideas, it wouldn't.
Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.
Unless you're Barack Obama, you cannot pull off an impromptu a capella rendition of a heart-warming song in the middle of a speech.
At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.
I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.
I am more proud of Hillary Clinton's alt-right speech than any other moment on the campaign trail.
The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed to defending free speech.
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.
One thing that I have noticed is that whatever be the function, however poignant or serious, the audience always prefers a speech laced with a bit of humor.
You give hundreds, probably thousands of speeches in this business, but you only get one chance to make an acceptance speech at the Hall of Fame. That's pressure.
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
Democrats haven't been this upset about an American engaging in free speech since Juanita Broaddrick opened her yap.
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.
I got on the high school speech team and everyday I would get up in front of the class and just start talking.
