Quotes About Speech

I realised that she was early drunk, in that squall of coherence before slurred speech and clumsiness and collapse.

Remember, 'governance' is a big word that includes human rights, freedom of speech, economic transactions on a worldwide basis - it touches everything. It's everywhere, and that's why Internet governance is Topic A in many corners.

Trump spoke badly about women... It sparked worldwide reactions.

I had a lot of trouble speaking as a kid. I didn't really speak in coherent sentences until I was, like, 6 years old. There was a long time where everybody was very worried, because my sisters were so advanced for their age, and I would barely talk.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.

Many of the best parts of America's history would have been impossible without police. All the freedoms we enjoy - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear - sit on a foundation of public safety.

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

Our founding documents didn't just protect the right to bear arms: they were designed to protect all the principles upon which America was founded - and the first among those were freedom of worship, peaceful assembly, and the right to free speech.

Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.

Sometimes my tone stinks.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I'm doing pretty good on my own, when I can control my tongue.

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek.