Quotes About Speech

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

A chance word or a sigh are just as much evidence as a speech or a murder: the life they reveal ceases to be secret and enters the realm of action.

I hope to risk things all my life." "Oh, Margaret, most dangerous." "But after all," she continued with a smile, "there's never any great risk as long as you have money." "Oh, shame! What a shocking speech!" "Money pads the edges of things," said Miss Schlegel. "God help those who have none.

Entä ellet sanoisi mitään?" ehdotti dekaani. "Etten sanoisi mitään? Hirvittävää. Olette järjiltänne." "Puhutteko te sitten aina, jos sopii kysyä?" tiedusteli Chapman. Risley sanoi, että asia oli niin. "Ettekö koskaan väsy puhumiseen?" "En koskaan.

In the presence of these women Leonard had arrived, and he spoke with a flow, an exultation, that he had seldom known.

He and his friends there believed in free speech. But they spoke freely about generalities. They were scientific and philosophic. They would have shrunk from the empirical freedom that results from a little beer.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

Online, the extent to which they can exploit freedom of speech is limited only by their own moral codes - which, as we have seen, have been shaped to fit the dominant moral framework of recent decades.

The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Even their voices go up at the end of a declarative sentence

Of thy word unspoken thou art master; thy spoken word is master of thee.

It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true--nobody will ever take you seriously.

It's a great country: you can say whatever you like so long as it is strictly true—nobody will ever take you seriously.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

The pen is mightier than the sword! a

Foolishness always results when the tongue outraces the brain.