Quotes About Speech

They only babble who practise not reflection.

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came from.

Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.

Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth.

In the emotion, you say things that you regret the next day.

Honestly, I don't ever regret anything I say.

I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.

A ban on a class of arms is not an 'incidental' regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of speech.

The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.

People do not use foul language in the House of Commons chamber. They just don't do it, and I don't, either.

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there's a limit to how far we can take that.

Ancient is this [saying], O Atula, It is not just of today: They find fault in one sitting silently, They find fault in one speaking much, They find fault in one speaking moderately. No one in this world is not found at fault.

Maybe speech and communication have been corrupted. They're thoroughly permeated by money - and not by accident but by their very nature. We've got to hijack speech. Creating has always been something different from communicating. The key thing may be to create vacuoles on noncommunication, circuit breakers, so that we can elude control.

I spoke in a soft, soothing voice, a voice wearing a cardigan.

I, of course, replied with the golden tongue of a horse seller. Uh ... Uh ... But ...

Building the church with human wisdom or eloquent speech that circumvents the Cross is building with wood, hay, and stubble.

Comment, Mademoiselle? Vous appellés cela betrügen? Corriger la fortune, l'enchainer sous ses doits, etre sûr de son fait, das nenn die Deutsch betrügen? betrügen! O, was ist die deutsch Sprak für ein arm Sprak! für ein plump Sprak!

Freedom, I thought, comes only to the successful and in his trade my father was a success. If a client didn't like my father's manner or his estimates, he could go elsewhere. My father wouldn't have cared. Perhaps it is freedom, of speech and conduct, which is really envied by the unsuccessful, not money or even power.

Perhaps it is freedom, of speech and conduct, which is really envied by the unsuccessful, not money or even power.

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash.