Quotes About Speech

Talkers never acted when they could talk.

before he could stop himself he heard himself say:

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

Ohne Gedankenfreiheit gibt es keine Weisheit. Und ohne Redefreiheit keine öffentliche Freiheit.

He that speaks much is much mistaken.

Tôi không nói x?u ai mà ch? nói nh?ng ?i?u t?t ??p tôi ???c bi?t v? h?.

For the studies, first they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of some good grammar, either that now used, or any better: and while this is doing, their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels.

Better to be thought fhe fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Here comes the orator! With his flood of words and his drop of reason.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever of folly

138. Elegancy, is a good Meen and Address given to Matter, be it by proper or figurative Speech: Where the Words are apt, and allusions very natural, Certainly it has a moving Grace: But it is too artificial for Simplicity, and oftentimes for Truth. The Danger is, lest it delude the Weak, who in such Cases may mistake the Handmaid for the Mistress, if not Error for Truth.

the chief ends of conversation are to inform or to be informed, to please or to persuade, I wish well-meaning, sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive, assuming manner, that seldom fails to disgust, tends to create opposition, and to defeat everyone of those purposes for which speech was given to us, to wit, giving or receiving information or pleasure.

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.

Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself, avoid trifling conversation.

We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way—an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.