Quotes About Speech

My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.

People who truly have money don't need to go around talking about it. God can take it from you as quick as he gave it to you, and people need to remember that!

In fact, I've always thought that there are actors who can talk very quickly and effectively. And I've never felt that I'm in that category!

Radio affords you the opportunity to pontificate and elaborate extensively.

There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

I do not favor the gag order.

Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'

If there's garbage in one's head, that's what will come out.

I say the word N-U-C-L-E-R the same way that George W. Bush says it.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

You speak things into existence, but there's a gift and a curse with that. You got to be careful what you say.

Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.

Most people can't talk as fast as I do. I'm not proud of that. That's God-given.

Good men died for our right to say whatever we want to say and use whatever words we want to use.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July?

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think , and to speak.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Mr. Hunter not only congratulated me upon my speech, but at parting, gave me a friendly grip, and added that if Robert E. Lee were alive and present, he knew he would give me his hand also.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.