Quotes About Speech

An eloquent man, my child, an eloquent man, and a patriot.

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE features of the Augustan regime was that speech remained free.

All his life he suffered from first-night nerves. He acknowledged: Personally, I am always very nervous when I begin to speak. Every time I make a speech I feel I am submitting to judgment, not only about my ability but my character and honor. I am afraid of seeming either to promise more than I can perform, which suggests complete irresponsibility, or to perform less than I can, which suggests bad faith and indifference.

In his early twenties Cicero wrote the first two volumes of a work on "invention"—that is to say, the technique of finding ideas and arguments for a speech; in it he noted that the most important thing was "that we do not recklessly and presumptuously assume something to be true." This resolute uncertainty was to be a permanent feature of his thought.

German accent, as if he

Our Constitution provides the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression and it also enjoins upon citizens the duty to safeguard public property and to abjure violence.

I had curly hair, braces, pimples - you talk about going through puberty and the worst things that go with it, I had it, for sure. And then I had a bottom retainer, so my lisp was really bad. I still have a minor one when I get really excited.

A public figure cannot control what people say in open meetings.

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.

I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right.

The retention of the power to punish for contempt for acts of speech alone, which do not directly interfere with the administration of justice, has removed the last shred of accountability of the higher judiciary in the country.

One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth he puts his words into, how he expresses himself, and there's a certain flavor you get with a dialect.

Burn the flag; that's a freedom. Then I have the freedom to take it away from them and tell them how dumb they are.

A boring speech can be just a boring speech. But a speech with a joke that falls flat is awful. I hate it. That's why I think it's easier to hate a comedy. If a drama doesn't land, it's boring; if a joke doesn't land - you hate that.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way.

I believe in form and the manner of what you say being as important as the content of what you say.

Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

I've always fought any form of censorship.

I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that.

America's founders knew the importance of allowing the people to speak critically about government actions.

Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.

We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.