Quotes About Speech

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.

The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose.

As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

If a corporation can express opinions and be protected in doing so by the First Amendment, then there's no reason logically one wouldn't think they could undertake to enjoy the other rights protected under the First Amendment.

See, one of the greatest things about living in the United States is that we have the absolute freedom to say whatever we want about our government, while being protected against government retaliation.

We have never protected illegal speech, as it seems that we have been accused of by some less than credible journalists.

If you value the democratic process, you have to value the protection of political speech.

Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be 'offensive' with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared 'racist' or 'sexist' every day, I'm certainly glad that we do have this protection.

The First Amendment protects the Internet.

Make no mistake: Deciding to abstain from the Pledge of Allegiance does communicate something, and therefore, it is a form of speech. It's also a form of peaceful protest, the right to which is another one of our values.

I feel like if a dude wants to get his point across and wants to protest, I feel like he has the right to do that.

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.

Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore

Behold, I am silent: for what need is there that, falsely speaking, I add shamelessness to misfortune?

for to Thebes this would be a reproach, if through fear of the Mycenæan spear I should give up my sceptre for this man to hold. But he ought, my mother, to effect a reconciliation, not by arms: for speech does every thing which even the sword of the enemy could do.

yá'ádaat'éhígíí bee hajiidziihgo 'ál'??. A person should only speak words that are good. Saad

It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

On the contrary. When a man speaks he's merely tradition. He has at best a few thousand years back of him. But woman, why, she is the miraculous mouthpiece of posterity.

Her voice is full of money