Quotes About Speech

I do hope you have not made it an impassioned speech, the duke said doubtfully. That would not be my style at all, you know.

The foolish words kept spilling from his mouth, though they seemed to have come from nowhere.

Cato was the most vociferous enemy of Carthage, notoriously, tediously but ultimately persuasively ending every speech he made with the words 'Carthage must be destroyed' ('Carthago delenda est', in the still familiar Latin phrase).

Other classical writers insisted that the tone and timbre of women's speech always threatened to subvert not just the voice of the male orator but also the social and political stability, the health, of the whole state.

Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money. (64)

Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

In his farewell speech, President Obama addressed the "work of democracy," the daily grind of change and the importance of the belief in the American experiment rather than the ideals on which the experiment is based.

Truth can remain silent. Lies must be spoken.

I have to speak carefully now because I have this strange habit of imitating British people without even realizing that I'm doing it.

Longfellow, as he climbed up, hoped he would not be asked to speak in front of all the guests during the banquet, but if he were, he would thank his friends for bringing him along.

Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted to talk she couldn't say a word.

no speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.

Once a country accepts censorship of the press and of speech, then nothing can be won without violence. Therefore, so long as you have free speech, protect it. This is the life-and-death issue in this country: do not give up the freedom of the press—of newspapers, books, magazines, television, radios, movies, and every other form of presenting ideas. So long as that's free, a peaceful intellectual turn is possible.

quoting Cary Grant) A word, like a lost opportunity, cannot be taken back once it hass been uttered.

For us to respond in that way to hateful speech... we empower the worst of us .. to create chaos around the world.

They deserved a victory lap, I thought to myself, a moment of pure elation. Which is why, even as I quieted the crowd and dove into my speech, I didn't have the heart to correct those well-meaning chanters—to remind them that in the year 2008, with the Confederate flag and all it stood for still hanging in front of a state capitol just a few blocks away, race still mattered plenty, as much as they might want to believe otherwise.

My anger when a young Kerry staffer informed us that I had to cut one of my favorite lines because the nominee intended to poach it for his own speech.

long time yet. I enjoyed sitting on the Woolsack where one of my greatest triumphs was to be able to support the bill for the immediate abolition of the slave trade, ending my speech with the words, 'Let us now set an example of humanity and justice which may be followed by all the nations of the earth.

He spoke for an hour on the nonviolent road to independence. The crowd loved it so much they rioted and killed twelve people.

His mustache made two curved lines around the sides of his mouth like parentheses, as if everything he might say would be very quiet, and incidental.

Questioning our government's actions does not violate the principles of liberty, equality, and freedom of speech; it exercises them, and by exercise we grow stronger. I have read enough of Thomas Jefferson to feel sure

Now I need to be careful where I go next, because (for their own protection) there are laws in thirteen states that make it illegal to say anything bad about cows.

A girl has shorter vocal cords than a boy, so it actually takes less effort for her to talk. As for boys' their vocal cords double in length during puberty. This can make it a lot of work for them to spit something out! Guys are four times more likely than girls to have a stuttering problem. So, because many boys aren't as good at talking as girls, they do less of it.