Quotes About Speech

According to House minority leader Richard Gephardt: "What we have is two important values in direct conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy.

Talk like an ambassador (Eph 4:29-30). 1)Consider the person (only what is helpful for building others up) 2) Consider the problem (according to their needs) 3) Consider the process (that it may benefit those who listen)

One of the problems with living in a free country was that anyone outside this palace/prison could think and say whatever he wished.

As was usual in Tilling, the presence of the Wyses curbed the tongued and improved the manner of those around them...A silence generally fell on the company after Mr. Wyse had finished speaking, his language was so fine, so Augustan that it seemed a pity to defile its memory with effusions in the sugar tongue.

It was going to be awkward, though, seeing him again at the ceremony, listening to him make a speech that would undoubtedly be witty and touching, but would omit the essential truth, which was that they'd loved each other for a while, and then he'd broken her heart.

Be careful what goes into your mouth and what comes out of it.

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

We had defended ourselves since memory against everything and everybody, considered all speech a code to be broken by us, and all gestures subject to careful analysis; we had become headstrong, devious, and arrogant. Nobody paid us any attention, so we paid very good attention to ourselves. Our limitations were not known to us—not then.

They bowed their heads and listened obediently to Misner's beautifully put words and the tippy-tap steps of women who were nowhere in sight.

Padre always told me me language was sulphurous.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. —AMBROSE BIERCE

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver.

Annie, again, nodded. She wondered if, years from now, she would be unable to move her neck at all as a result of the repetitive, silent way that she had avoided the need for speech.

What you know in your head and what you say out loud are not always the same.

Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

Well, they certainly didn't teach you any manners. (Lorelei) I'm a pirate. What, would you have me spout poetry? (Jack)

Americans hold sacrosanct the ideals of freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion and also believe that every human being is entitled to the same fundamental human rights. The Chinese believe that social needs and social harmony are more important than individual needs and rights and that the prevention of chaos and turbulence is the main goal of governance.

Even at a distance of decades, people invoking Gandhi's name still evade the hard questions raised by Godse in his speech.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

The basic outline of the philosophy of the Buribunks: I think, therefore I am; I speak therefore I am; I write, therefore I am; I publish therefore I am.

The sequence that made Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Dream Speech" the greatest speech of the twentieth century had all been improvised. The words "I have a dream" are not in the original copy of the speech!

The four elements of verbal delivery are: rate, volume, pitch, and pauses. RATE: Speed at which you speak VOLUME: Loudness or softness PITCH: High or low inflections PAUSES: Short pauses to punch key words