Quotes About Speech

I grew up being very patriotic. My parents really love this country. A big part of what they love is freedom of speech... I'm fearless because aren't we supposed to be able to speak our mind?

I'm not much at saying patriotic things.

Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a journalist, so that's something that I take very seriously.

I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth And what flies up, though it be but a spark, Shall have weight.

As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least with are the greatest babblers.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

Nicolás Maduro empieza a padecer un delirio no exento de lapsus cómicos cada vez que se acerca el micrófono a la boca

But, if I were given my choice, I prefer the speech like the winter snows.

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech

Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

In a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered in his vindication 'He who knows how to speak, knows also when'.

While in the case of his iron money, as I have explained, Lycurgus arranged for heavy weight to be matched by low value, he did the opposite for the currency of speech. Here he developed the technique of expressing a wide range of ideas in just a few, spare words.

In an harangue to the people, he said, with reference to these measures, that he had proscribed all he could think of, and as to those who now escaped his memory, he would proscribe them at some future time.

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.