Quotes About Speech

No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment—with the answer, No effects.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.

As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden—"Speech is silvern, Silence is golden"; or, as I might rather express it, speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.

Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.

Does it ever give thee pause, that men used to have a soul- not by hearsay along, or as a figure of speech; but as a truth that they knew, and acted upon! Verily it was another world then... but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls... we shall have to go in search of them again, or worse in all ways shall befall us.

Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Oxford philosopher John Austin pointed out that saying, "I promise," is a whole different linguistic deal

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.

You can't say whatever you want on network television.

My neutral accent is Bolton.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.

You know, I have got quite a husky, gritty voice which people say - even when I'm talking nicely - does sound a bit rough.

There's no doubt we'd be very angry if the American president had come to the Knesset and argued against the government of Israel.

The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.

freedom to speak includes the freedom to be wrong.