Quotes About Speech

There is life or death in words.

Ben Carson actually lost a tooth. Which explains why he said that under his leadership, Americans would be entitled to 'life, liberty, and the purthuit of happineth.'

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility.

Christians need to set the example with their words. Christians should think twice about the negative things that they say and not hesitate to say something positive.

In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.

We are not bound by time. But there are things we cannot speak of because the repercussions of particular thoughts can break lives.

Words got the power to hurt or heal.

Words can be arrows that inflict wounds. They can also be bandages that heal.

Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.

We now know that infants do not gain a more sophisticated vocabulary until their fine-motor finger control improves.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.

Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to holdA sheep-hook.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in a speech to Cambridge students in March 2011, it is also the greatest spying machine the world has ever seen. It is not a technology that favours freedom of speech. It is not a technology that favours human rights. It is not a technology that favours civil life. Rather it is a technology that can be used to set up a totalitarian spying regime, the likes of which we have never seen.

Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.

In cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die...

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

Make the mule of your tongue serve the mercy of your heart.

A fool's tongue," Bruce Waltke wryly notes, "is long enough to cut his own throat."4

All progress, ultimately, is the result of playing with ideas and seeing new ways of connecting existing knowledge in such a way that the sum is greater than its constituent parts. And making such unlikely connections is the essence of punning. Without learning to pun, we might just take speech at face value and wouldn't necessarily learn to hunt for deeper, different or related meanings.

Good words cool more than cold water.

Syllables govern the world.