Quotes About Speech

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

My words are my bullets.

What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.

My son likes Doctor Seuss books, but they're right tongue twisters. You get to certain bits and you stumble your words and it makes you feel like an idiot.

I cannot tell everyone what they must say or what they must not say. Everyone is the owner of their own words.

Batman had a certain speech pattern that I established because he was always Sherlock Holmes-ian. He was Basil Rathbone. In other words, he was always musing about something.

Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

The only threat is a growing pushback from militant liberals who seek to destroy free expression as they look to limit the speech of anyone who has feelings they find objectionable. It makes comics tentative to push boundaries and freely talk about the thoughts in their heads. That part is terrible for development.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

As a woman, it's frustrating to understand and accept the fact that there are so many messed up young boys who threaten girls under the pretext of freedom of speech.

It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these freedoms, limits that often come into play when national security is threatened.

In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.

No single platform can sensibly prevent all hateful, illegal or threatening speech - it can only act in due time to remove it.