Quotes About Speech

Gut gesprochen, gut gelernt, eilfertig herausgespien aus dem Fundus Eures Unverstands und unter konsequenter Umgehung des Nachdenkens.

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

When speaking, be sincere, be brief, and be seated.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want… everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear… anywhere in the world.

December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy

Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

You mind your tongue!" "Oh, I do," I said. "I sharpen it every evening on your name.

It is commonly thought with criminal flippancy that to politicize the masses means from time to time haranguing them with a major political speech.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

On the day of the 9/11 attacks, Rice was scheduled to deliver a speech on the major threats facing the land; the draft didn't so much as mention bin Laden or al Qaeda.) In

The vision of Van Helsing as a vampire is one before which my imagination balks; this is doubtless only a shortcoming on my part; he may have been well fitted for the role, since as we have seen he had already the power, by means of speech, to cast his victims into a stupor.

I haven't the gift of the gab, my sons—because I'm bred to the sea.

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.

Better the foot slip than the tongue.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence—free of the networks of dead speech.

Je öfter sich ein Politiker widerspricht, desto größer ist er.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

While the words are yet unspoken, you are master of them; when once they are spoken, they are master of you.

De inimico non loquaris male, sed cogites

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

It might be said that Tress had a way with words. In that her words tended to get in her way.