Quotes About Speech

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

Everyone has a right to say what they want, but what they have to say doesn't interest me.

We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.

Whether I'm in the Hall of Fame or not, I can say whatever I like; it just depends on how it's interpreted!

I can't say if I enjoy the attention or not. It's really exhausting. But every speech and every interview is extremely important to me because it could be my last one.

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

STATEMENTS Words that come forth from the mouth regardless of who spoke them, are important.... Words should not be wasted because: there is a word in those words that is the word meant for you to build your walls in this world

Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing—nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.

Harmonize your lips with the word of God.

What is spoken flies, what is written never dies.

Speak Speak, your lips are free. Speak, it is your own tongue. Speak, it is your own body. Speak, your life is still yours. See how in the blacksmith's shop The flame burns wild, the iron glows red; The locks open their jaws, And every chain begins to break. Speak, this brief hour is long enough Before the death of body and tongue: Speak, 'cause the truth is not dead yet, Speak, speak, whatever you must speak.

Anything you say can and will be used against you, so only say my name.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Yo, por ejemplo, nunca uso el verbo «escuchar», que significa oír con atención. ¿Y por qué? Porque no me gusta, porque no lo necesito, porque está de moda. A mí con «oír» me basta porque me sirve tanto para un trueno como para un discurso. Si el presidente escucha un trueno, yo lo oigo. El presidente es un atropellador del idioma, un ignorante, un abusivo, un vivo: yo ya estoy muerto.

History will absolve me.

A wise man knows what he says, A fool says what he knows.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

By your words ye are justified and by your words ye are condemned.

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

What is freedom? It is the sum total of freedoms. To be free, under one's own responsibility, to think and act, to speak and write, to work and trade, to teach and learn, that alone is to be free.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

There's no good speech save in Paris.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Whatever is unlike Christ in conduct, speech, or disposition grieves the Spirit of grace.