Quotes About Speech

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

Pleasant speech yields joy to all, and observing this, is there any need for unpleasant speech?

I like a New York accent.

I'm a New Yorker, so I speak really fast, naturally.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really.

God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

It is a travesty that I have to stand trial because I spoke about fewer Moroccans.

After Margaret Thatcher's funeral, I spoke at a tribute meeting organised by her supporters in a pub next to St Paul's.

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist der Liebe gesprochen.

Thirty two men keep guarding the tongue. Since it keeps a sense, still speaks non sense.

The flicker, the flutter, even thoughts can stutter.

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone's mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

Democrasy comes into grave danger when truth is no longer spoken to power.

If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

Freedom of speech is a two way street, man. You have the right to say whatever you want and the Boss has a right to tell the police to arrest you.

There needs to be an app that edits what I say versus what I want to say.