People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Votes: 6
Soren KierkegaardIn our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Votes: 4
George OrwellFree speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. Votes: 4
Salman RushdieSometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. Votes: 4
E. O. WilsonSpeak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. Votes: 4
Ambrose BierceIt is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush. Votes: 4
PlautusSpeech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought. Votes: 3
Martin Farquhar TupperSpeech is silver, but silence is golden when hearers are inattentive. Votes: 3
Charles Haddon SpurgeonSpeech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought. Votes: 3
Susanne Katherina LangerSpeech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. Votes: 3
Alfred North WhiteheadSpeech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech. Votes: 3
AristotleSpeech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it. Votes: 3
James Earl JonesSpeech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. Votes: 3
David FrumAnd Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech. Votes: 3
Alfred Lord TennysonSpeech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance. Votes: 3
Harry Dean StantonSpeech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Votes: 3
George EliotSpeech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance Votes: 3
Harry Dean StantonSpeech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come. Votes: 3
Isaac of NinevehSpeech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. Votes: 3
Thomas CarlyleSpeech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed. Votes: 3
Abraham Joshua HeschelI vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it. Votes: 3
David LettermanSpeech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them. Votes: 3
Virginia WoolfSpeech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave. Votes: 3
Ibn Qayyim Al-JawziyyaSpeech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another. Votes: 3
James Harvey RobinsonA kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Votes: 2
Ingrid BergmanThe accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. Votes: 2
Francois de La RochefoucauldBeware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantFunest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds. Votes: 0
Wallace StevensA speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information. Votes: 0
Henry F. AshurstSpartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonListen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence. Votes: 0
Catherine DohertyFreedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear. Votes: 0
Franklin D. RooseveltMore have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.] Votes: 0
George HerbertMusic is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. Votes: 0
Alphonse de LamartineSilence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe. Votes: 0
Theodore ParkerMost profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand. Votes: 0
Richard MasurSilence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech. Votes: 0
Sathya Sai BabaKindness is goodness hidden in the heartMore often than declared in speech. Votes: 0
William Kean SeymourA dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. Votes: 0
George SantayanaA speech without a specific purpose is like a journey without a destination. Votes: 0
Ralph C. SmedleyMentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government. Votes: 0
Stephen ColbertThe truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Votes: 0
Paula PoundstoneSilence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliEvery thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment. Votes: 0
Maharishi Mahesh YogiPersuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. Votes: 0
HomerCultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence. Votes: 0
Sathya Sai BabaThe most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking. Votes: 0
Allan LokosFreedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions, Votes: 0
Staffan de MisturaAmericans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts. Votes: 0
Bernie SandersMuslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer. Votes: 0
Mohammad Hussein FadlallahI've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too. Votes: 0
Gabrielle GiffordsFear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Votes: 0
Louis D. BrandeisIf no thought your mind does visit, make your speech not too explicit. Votes: 0
Piet Pieterszoon HeinRight speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech. Votes: 0
Dietrich BonhoefferShe had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawThere is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus. Votes: 0
Mark TwainFree speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die. Votes: 0
Herbert HooverI believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America. Votes: 0
Kirk CameronBrevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk. Votes: 0
Doug LarsonThe sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate. Votes: 0
John C. MaxwellThere is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken. Votes: 0
Shappi KhorsandiBrevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech. Votes: 0
Anthony KennedyEverybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground. Votes: 0
Heywood BrounMan must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts. Votes: 0
Sathya Sai BabaThe freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization. Votes: 0
Ai WeiweiFreedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like. Votes: 0
Larry FlyntThe Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action. Votes: 0
Horace MannYou know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it. Votes: 0
Larry FlyntRight motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. Votes: 0
Mary Baker EddyI am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech. Votes: 0
Nhat HanhO my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you. Votes: 0
Sri ChinmoyHis speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him. Votes: 0
Kenneth OppelComedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech. Votes: 0
Ted AlexandroThe cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech. Votes: 0
Jules VerneShe felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly. Votes: 0
Kate ChopinThe commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithAny government which fears freedom of speech and expression, should fear the internet more. Votes: 0
Robert BlackThe fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion. Votes: 0
Markwayne MullinNot every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence. Votes: 0
Johann Kaspar LavaterAesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech. Votes: 0
George Edward WoodberryBeautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech. Votes: 0
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonAny kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying. Votes: 0
Lady StarlightBore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliEloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart. Votes: 0
William Jennings BryanIf someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech. Votes: 0
Camille PagliaTo protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong. Votes: 0
Betty FriedanFreedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend. Votes: 0
Robert SpencerThe easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it. Votes: 0
Herman Herst, Jr.The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonGrammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. Votes: 0
Richard Chenevix TrenchTell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier. Votes: 0
Wallace StevensWhenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech. Votes: 0
Mark TwainWe want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. Votes: 0
Sarojini NaiduThe child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. Votes: 0
Herbert SpencerSlavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion. Votes: 0
Hinton Rowan HelperLamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed. Votes: 0
Abraham Lincoln[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher. Votes: 0
Catherine CamusEach part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.... Votes: 0
Denise LevertovWithout free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Votes: 0
Charles BradlaughHe gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe. Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere. Votes: 0
ConfuciusVerse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 Votes: 0
Edward ThomasDialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are. Votes: 0
Sterling K. BrownThe common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenThe restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiIf music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist. Votes: 0
Ned RoremI'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought. Votes: 0
Jimmy WalesWhich country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one? Votes: 0
Julian AssangeRude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. Votes: 0
William Shakespeare...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonWatch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Votes: 0
Norman Vincent PealeIt's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work. Votes: 0
Salman RushdieIt is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Votes: 0
Louis D. BrandeisTruth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it. Votes: 0
Luc de ClapiersUnder all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleMy father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech. Votes: 0
Patricia BriggsA speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself. Votes: 0
Ralph ArchboldFor jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew Votes: 0
C. S. LewisWhen they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettIs sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. Votes: 0
William SafireAmerica is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing. Votes: 0
Alexis de TocquevilleYou can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonMost of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings. Votes: 0
Jennifer StoneWe should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed. Votes: 0
EpictetusFreedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed. Votes: 0
Geert WildersI never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. Votes: 0
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.I love it when dogs yawn. Especially when it's in the middle of another dog's speech. Votes: 0
Dana GouldIt is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. Votes: 0
Seneca the ElderOne sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?' Votes: 0
Sam HornThe freedom of speech and the freedom of press, it's just precious man, it really is. Votes: 0
Killer MikeLet us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerThe U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech. Votes: 0
Benjamin E. SasseI was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.' Votes: 0
Ta-Nehisi CoatesA man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech. Votes: 0
Reggie EvansJust at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth. Votes: 0
Walter ScottI have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind. Votes: 0
Jason BeckerIn a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. Votes: 0
John Millington SyngeThree silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowParticularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerI've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats. Votes: 0
Ann CoulterWe should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven. Votes: 0
Maurice Merleau-PontyI indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams. Votes: 0
Charles Keating, Jr.A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight. Votes: 0
Salman RushdieThe true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithOne way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. Votes: 0
Harold PinterI indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams. Votes: 0
Charles KeatingI always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like. Votes: 0
Bindi IrwinThe person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press. Votes: 0
Nat HentoffDo not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak. Votes: 0
Ali ibn Abi TalibLet thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink. Votes: 0
EpictetusMarks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose. Votes: 0
Georgia O'KeeffeMartin Luther King gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech, not the 'I Have a Plan' speech. Votes: 0
Simon SinekThe color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. Votes: 0
DogenIt is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins. Votes: 0
Richard WagnerSo many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother. Votes: 0
Michael CurtizIt is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect. Votes: 0
Criss JamiLet me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there. Votes: 0
Wendell BerryThe best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it. Votes: 0
Mark TwainA speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say. Votes: 0
William StaffordMy wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. Votes: 0
Jimmy DuranteI'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. Votes: 0
Fred WilsonAs a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. Votes: 0
Joe BidenThe best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it. Votes: 0
Philip SidneyThe fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech. Votes: 0
George T. Delacorte, Jr.Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. Votes: 0
Jonathan SwiftI make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months. Votes: 0
Alain RobertA speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on. Votes: 0
William T. PiperAnd endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words. Votes: 0
HomerSlang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceI'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillWhat great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them. Votes: 0
Vincent McNabbOne of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech. Votes: 0
Danica PatrickI have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced Votes: 0
Joseph ConradA good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.' Votes: 0
Robert BreaultMum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table. Votes: 0
Lily JamesI was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on. Votes: 0
Herschel WalkerTrust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will. Votes: 0
Curt SchillingWhen a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say. Votes: 0
Gerald R. FordWords can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.
Deepak ChopraI have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.
Evelyn WaughMan is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
Joseph JoubertMetaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.
Marshall McLuhanI am more proud of Hillary Clinton's alt-right speech than any other moment on the campaign .
Jennifer PalmieriCats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?
Lilian Jackson BraunI support freedom of speech " even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.
Mona EltahawySometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
Simone de BeauvoirOf lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech
T. S. EliotNever use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
George OrwellMusic... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.
Thomas CarlyleWhere there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
Winston ChurchillSearching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.
Yuanwu KeqinA law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.
Anthony KennedyMy heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.
Ludwig van BeethovenMost men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
Sir George Savile, 8th BaronetForget about speech problems just saying the words "brain surgery" sucks the air out of a room.
Suzy BeckerSpeech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.
Emily DickinsonIn every governmental speech I give before state parliament, I say: Bavaria will remain Bavaria.
Horst SeehoferA single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.
Jaroslaw KaczynskiIt is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.
Marcus Tullius CiceroEarlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.
Rick SantorumOne thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.
SophoclesThey tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it
C. S. LewisI've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
Cyndi LauperAmerica is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot,
Eric StonestreetSpeech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
Ferdinand de SaussureI think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert.
Mike BassThe prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.
Sylvia BoorsteinConsider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
Cato the YoungerI'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.
Larry the Cable GuyIn my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.
Mary KarrThe emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
Vincent Van GoghThe speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
William Jennings BryanWhen there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.
Yevgeny YevtushenkoThe virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.
ConfuciusCease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
DogenA generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Gautama BuddhaPolitically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say "Heil Hitler.'
Isaac Asimov[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.
Jeffrey RosenNo matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.
Kin HubbardThey say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
Wislawa Szymborska