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Quotes About Speech

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
~ Ben Carson
May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth and all the people say amen.
~ Anne Royall
The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.
~ Pat Swindall
I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.
~ Mark Twain
Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.
~ Steve Daines
He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.
~ Dawn Jayne, Crises
The tongue is like a lion, if you let it loose, it will wound someone.
~ Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib R.A
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.
~ Thomas Goodwin
Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous. - Marius
~ Conn Iggulden
Taal verwoordt slechts de onmogelijkheid om je uit te drukken.
~ Yasmina Reza
The speed of a tongue should always go some seconds behind the speed of thought, never the other way around.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
the speed of the tongue should always be some seconds behind the speed of thought, but certainly not the other way around.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.
~ yoshikawa eiji
Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
~ Yoshimi Ishikawa
That which proceeds from a man's soul shall shape his soul; that which proceeds from his speech shall shape his speech, and deeds that proceed from his body shall shape his body.
~ Yukio Mishima
Stutter, stutter!
~ Yukio Mishima
The dao is at the limit of the world of things. Speech and silence are not adequate to represent the idea of it. Neither speech nor silence can be the highest expression of our thinking about it.
~ Zhuangzi
Rampton suggested that one could derive a "fair picture of a man's true attitudes and motives from what he says and from the kind of people he associates with and speaks to.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
Freedom of speech includes the right to expose lies, as Lipstadt did. It does not grant immunity from criticism to bigots like Irving.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
Peter warns us, "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech" (1 PETER 3:10).
~ Deborah Smith Pegues
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue" (PSALM 120:2 KJV).
~ Deborah Smith Pegues
My mouth speaks what is true, for my lips detest wickedness. All the words of my mouth are just; none of them is crooked or perverse" (PROVERBS 8:7-8).
~ Deborah Smith Pegues
The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips…" (PSALM 12:3 KJV). Is flattery worth being cut off from the blessings of God?
~ Deborah Smith Pegues
To hide hatred is to be a liar; to slander is to be a fool. PROVERBS 10:18 NLT
~ Deborah Smith Pegues