Quotes About Speech

Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

I don't remember at all what was said at my college graduation, and I think that's the case for many people.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

I'm a great believer in freedom of speech.

The First Amendment's protections have always put a great deal of responsibility in our hands: not only to respect the power of our own speech, but also to respect that same power in the hands of people we despise.

The great thing about this country is that everyone has the chance to voice their own opinion.

I grew up cursing a lot.

Our constitution guarantees freedom of speech, and if anybody has a problem we should listen to him, instead of running after him.

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

I'd like to think that, in the United States, you can criticize a company that makes hamburgers without having to worry about what might happen to you.

An interesting man. He was a last minute replacement as Bush's running mate, when the original candidate managed to say Thy Kingdom Cunt at a prayer breakfast.

The tongue has the power of life and death."1

Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them. —Ephesians 4:29

If you claim to be religious but don't control your tongue, you are fooling yourself, and your religion is worthless. —James 1:26

Words have an everlasting effect, bringing life or death. Resolve now that your words will bring life! — Kelly J. Stigliano

The ancient Hebrew proverb did not overstate the reality: "The tongue has the power of life and death.

It is foolish to belittle one's neighbor; a sensible person keeps quiet. —Proverbs 11:12

Salomón, autor de la antigua literatura hebrea de sabiduría, escribió: «En la lengua hay poder de vida y muerte»

Solomon, author of the ancient Hebrew Wisdom Literature, wrote, "The tongue has the power of life and death."2

The tongue has the power of life and death.

Author Ambrose Bierce said, "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Among the Ethiopians it is well known that monkeys deliberately do not speak so they will not be obliged to work.

To speak well is part of living well.

And for a dreamer of words, what calm there is in the word round. How peacefully it makes one's mouth, lips, and the being of breath become round. Because this too should be spoken by a philosopher who believes in the poetic substance of speech.