Quotes About Speech

Silence is an ornament for women.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

I'm part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn't a cure; it's something you need to maintain and work on. I get days where I find things more difficult than others.

I had a stutter when I was a young. I went to speech therapy.

When I finally addressed my stuttering - I was almost through with medical school by the time that I finally sought therapy for speech - one of the exercises was making sure that we say what we want to say and not substitute words.

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

Ever since Theresa May's premiership, I have become suspicious of the 'lectern moment'. That is when the prime minister steps outside Downing Street to address the nation on Brexit.

I believe in freedom of speech. I believe people have the right to say whatever they want to say. As long as they're ready to own what they say. Because there's a price to pay when you say something that's against the grain that is not correct.

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very rare.

I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

President Obama's farewell speech soared, towered, dragged. True, it was longer than Reagan's, Clinton's and GWB's speeches combined. If it got any longer, it would have qualified as a third term.

I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me.

I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.