Quotes About Speech

Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

but he has never played the demagogue.

What became clear to me though, is that my white colleague had not experienced racialized trauma. My colleague was threatened because of his exercise of courageous speech. But his whiteness remained unmarked. The objective here is not to judge who suffered more, me or my white colleague. Rather it is important to recognize the specifically white racist hatred that I encountered. How my Black body was assaulted. My white colleague was threatened, but his whiteness was not under attack.

A gap will yawn, achingly, day by day, it will turn into a colossal pit, an abyss without foundation, a gradual invasion of words by margins, blank and insignificant, so that all of us, to a man, will find nothing to say.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

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.

Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

10 persons who speak make more noise than 10,000 who are silent.

Too much talk will include errors.

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

A good speech, like a woman's skirt, should be long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. I have been asked to give my address in the remaining five minutes. That I can do! Here it is: 10 Carlton Gardens, London, England.

A speech that's full of sparkling wit will keep its hearer grinning, provided its end is close to its beginning.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

I was told to be accurate, be brief, and then be seated. ... So I promise I shall be brief as possible - no matter how long it takes me.

Thank you for the privilege of speaking to you in this magnificent auditorium. You know the meaning of the word auditorium, don't you? It is derived from two Latin words, audio, "to hear," and taurus, "the bull."

We will then hear from the founder of the Mayo Clinic, . . . Dr. Ted Clinic.

When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief."