Quotes About Speech

I don't think the Donald Trump's qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose."

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action

A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.

I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.

Words can be said in a moment that will not be forgotten in years.

Speech is the voice of the heart.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

And you were ready to silence a Harper, and that is a greater wrong, for when speech is restricted, all men suffer, not just I.

for when speech is restricted, all men suffer

Let's say you had to report back to heaven at the end of your time on earth, tell them what your personal allotment of experience had been: wouldn't it sound like Poppy's speech? The smell of radiator dust on a winter morning, the taste of hot maple syrup ...

If you can't say something nice,' " Jason mumbled, " 'don't say nothing at all.'

14 A discerning mind seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness. 15 All the days of the oppressed are miserable, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

A fool and his words are soon parted