Quotes About Speech

One voice was raised in dissent. A Springfield lawyer, a former member of Congress and longtime Whig named Abraham Lincoln, took up Douglas's defense of Kansas-Nebraska at the Illinois statehouse in Springfield the day after Douglas spoke at the state fair. In the course of a three-hour speech, Lincoln proceeded to tear Kansas-Nebraska and popular sovereignty to shreds.

She spoke the

Si tu parles, tu meurs ; si tu ne parles pas, tu meurs. Alors parle et meurs. »

La parole émancipe.

Si tu parles, tu meurs ; si tu ne parles pas, tu meurs. Alors parle et meurs.

When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation, so I think of my speech impediment not as a weakness or a disability, but as one of my greatest strengths.

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

I believe absolutely that words must be treated as material weapons, every invective or threat as violence and aggression.

Liberals like to say there aren't any limitations on speech, and it's true that they can say or do just about anything. But conservatives apparently can't even stand still while wearing a MAGA hat without crossing a line.

I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.

I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering consequences for anti-American speech on the web in China.

Even under the best circumstances, speaking at your own wedding ceremony is a high pressure endeavor. What even constitutes a vow? I always picture them as exclamations you bellow at the sky.

I started doing standup because of Hugh Grant's best-man speech in 'Four Weddings,' which is basically a standup routine.

I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

I just think political correctness is a limitation on our First Amendment freedoms.

I think political correctness has taken over this country.

When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads.

Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide army to campaign freely for power.

Political speech is indispensable to decision-making in a democracy, and this is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation rather than an individual.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

I think, when you become a politician, if you talk about religion too much, you're pandering or something.

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.