Quotes About Speech

Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of the press, I believe we must define a journalist and the constitutional and statutory protections those journalists should receive.

This country is built on free speech.

I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy.

We are a country that believes in free speech and the open debate of ideas. We're a country that also believes in the Second Amendment and our ability to have guns. But we've got to figure out a way to keep America safe.

Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.

The right to free speech is critical to our democracy.

We need to defend principles like democracy, freedom of speech, gender equality, and the rule of law through exemplifying these on a global scale, not through the same cynical, isolationist policies which have eroded these so-called 'British' values across the rest of the world.

What you mean by freedom of speech? Democracy doesn't mean you abuse your country. Sedition has a law in the constitution. You can't give speeches against your country.

Be it Hindi or Hinglish, Zee was never and will never be speechless.

It is only if you happen to be a newscaster that the tongue-twister spells peril.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.

It is difficult to know how the Tudors actually spoke because we're going back before Shakespeare; much of the drama from that period is courtly, allegorical.

The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.

In 1981, I spoke at the Olympic Congress. I was scandalised that I was the first athlete to be given that chance. But I made the most of it.

Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

I have been - I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.

Obama has spoken out a few times since on race, but without much effect.

I've always spoken very quickly, and when I get nervous, I talk even faster.

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.