Quotes About Speech

I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

And who could ever remember any of the things he says? They are just inspired remarks that roll out of his mouth like smoke.

Woodrow Wilson tricked the nation into fighting a useless war and then used the war as an excuse for punishing speech critical of his administration with long jail terms. He seized private property without paying for it and even arrested a rival presidential candidate.

Speech is one of the few abilities that human beings share across all creeds, faiths, races, and ethnicities. By nature, it connects us, it strengthens us, and it empowers us. Speech as affirmation or as dissent should be cherished and respected.

Churchill made his last political speech on 29 September 1959, in the election campaign at Woodford. 'Among our Socialist opponents there is great confusion,' he said. 'Some of them regard private enterprise as a tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk.

He is one of those orators of whom it was well said, "Before they get up, they do not know what they are going to say; when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when they have sat down, they do not know what they have said.

In the past, Churchill had described an Irish Parliament in Dublin as 'dangerous and impracticable', but with the Irish Nationalists now holding the balance of power he had completely come around to supporting it, as his speech at the football ground showed, although he did believe that the Ulstermen needed 'a moratorium of several years before they had to join'.

He cut out one quip from his September speech as just too flippant: he had been going to say, 'Our destroyers then engaged that particular submarine, and all that thereafter was seen of the vessel was a large spot of oil and a door which floated up to the surface bearing my initials.

Our history is a material history, not just a succession of thoughts or speech acts.

Tiga är guld, sägs det. Kanske det. Vet inte om det är så mycket värt. I alla fall har det sitt pris. Det kostar att tiga.

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

The number of vowel phonemes varies according to the different Masoretic traditions.

The earth turned on the pivot of her mouth.

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.

We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like Western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we're going to continue down the other pathway, where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties, and that we remain a Christian nation.

The notion that the First Amendment has no limitations whatsoever is balderdash.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Whenever you're talking about using humor in politics or in a policy speech or in a serious moment, you're talking about using it as a tool to engage people. That's why putting a joke in a political speech is a luxury, and it is always a risk.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Whereas Canada and our allies see the rule of law, freedom of speech, and fair elections as the guardrails to a more secure world, Beijing sees them as a threat to the rule of the Communist Party.

Wherever Islam gets its foot on the ground, you see less freedom, less freedom of speech, less freedom of anything.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.