Quotes About Speech

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

En Italie, on ne paie la justice que si elle se tait, mais en France on ne la paie au contraire que quand elle parle.

Senator Kennedy from Massachusetts had won in the closest presidential election since 1916. Hatless and handsome, he had given people faith in the future when he gave his acceptance speech. I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and of the cause of freedom around the world.

Honesty was like a stone, dropped and irretrievable once it was spoken aloud

They spoke like caricatures, it was unbearable.

Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but pervades and regulates the whole. He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

he had nothing to say and he said it

LOQUACITY, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.

Nacola Shardae, damn her feathers, was a true queen. In that single little speech, she managed to hit every vulnerability and fear Danica and I had regarding this child.

Um homem que não quer opiniões deveria manter a boca fechada.

I suppose some men just love the sound of their own voices.

CATTLE DIE, KINDRED DIE, EVERY MAN IS MORTAL: BUT I KNOW ONE THING THAT NEVER DIES, THE GLORY OF THE GREAT DEED. FROM HÁVAMÁL, THE SPEECH OF THE HIGH ONE

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

Rudy Giuliani -- there's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.

Put a stone in your mouth instead of a lie. Put a rock on your tongue instead of gossip.

A politician is a person who thinks twice before he says nothing.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Pay attention to what you're saying. Are you blessing your life? Or are you cursing it?

When negative thoughts come, the key is to never verbalize them.