Speech Quotes (957 Quotes)

It was a good speech, the kind he used to give us my freshman year at Notre Dame. I've heard it before.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

He's not asking for the church to become involved, he's asking for Pastor Johnson to disseminate this through his personal network. Certainly, the pastor does not lose his right to free speech.

The word covers a much wider range of speech than threats. It goes beyond the cyber-stalking that proponents were worried about.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Songs wont save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Songs are sneaky things they can slip across borders.

Yes, I did a tough speech. But it had to be said, it had to be done. We are close friends, and you've got to be able to tell your close friends the truth.

I thought all of this speech was too sympathetic, ... It was too much 'I feel your pain.'

We all cherish freedom of speech, but with a reasonable approach and a reasonable use of it. If we come to this, it is a debate. If not, then it is a power struggle. Who is going to win, the Muslim principles or the Western principles

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

Today our efforts have three fundamental objectives free elections, freedom of speech, and free education.

Those that favor the preservation of the current model fear that ceding oversight to the U.N. would result in a less 'laissez-faire' environment -- that it would open the door to tighter control and thereby engender all the trappings of control potential taxation, inefficiency, or restriction on free speech.

She has said two or three short sentences. When she sees here children, she says 'I love you.' At first she was only repeating things that the speech therapist said to her, or the speech therapist would start a song and King would start to sing it. Now she is coming up with what she wants to say, which is new. Every day, there is a little progress.

I was never told that I couldn't wear that shirt into the Congress. I was never asked to take it off or zip my jacket back up. If I had been asked to do any of those things...I would have, and written about the suppression of my freedom of speech later.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

Is Hillary Clinton as brilliant a politician as she's cracked up to be Here's a bit of evidence for the negative 'Clinton Says Lawyers Must Make Their Voices Heard in Washington' reads the headline of an Associated Press dispatch about a speech New York's junior senator gave at the American Bar Association convention in Chicago. Lawyers need to speak up more Now there's a message sure to strike a chord with the public.

He said to spend whatever money I felt necessary. The Dover campaign limit on what I can spend is a violation of my right of free speech.

The United States calls on the government of Iran to allow freedom of religion for all Iranians, and to ensure the right to freedom of speech and expression for all its citizens, without fear of discrimination, intimidation or imprisonment.

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

In the tabloid age, people think that they can say what they want. This is not (covered) by free speech. The truth is you can't just say what you want.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

Coach Noll is not a great one for speeches. He's not the rah-rah type trying to fire us up in the locker room. He gets us ready to play and gives us a game plan that we've grown to believe is going to work. Usually it does.

Speech recognition software is the stealth solution flying under the radar today that will revolutionize all our tomorrows.

It's a tough category to predict. I certainly don't expect to win. I don't typically prepare speeches. Maybe I'll do a little internal list of people I want to thank.

His speech is fine, but we don't see the relevance of bringing it up at this point. It's only by his association with his brother that he raised money for the church.

I made a speech by that title A Time for Choosing in 1964. I said, We've been told increasingly that we must choose between left or right. But we're still using those terms -- left or right. And I'll repeat what I said then in '64. There is no left or right. There's only an up or down up to the ultimate in individual freedom, consistent with an orderly society -- or down to the totalitarianism of the ant heap. And those today who, however good their intentions, tell us that we should trade freedom for security are on that downward path.

I'm disappointed but I watched (his) speech, and I think he's doing it because of a matter of principle. And as disappointed as I am I got to say I can understand we get so caught up in the day-to-day politics of things and struggle to serve politics ,we forget sometimes people take stands like this.

This is criminalizing freedom of speech, opinion, thought and belief,

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

Liberty doesn't work as good in practice as it does in speeches.

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it they expose it in its process rather than of it they expose it in its underwear.

The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

Gratitude -- is not the mention
Of a Tenderness,
But its still appreciation
Out of Plumb of Speech.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

Any thought, speech or deed causing harms to other is 'sin' while anything which is beneficial for others... gives joy to others is 'virtue'.

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'

The students voted me student body president simply because they knew who I was, and part of that responsibility was making a speech in front of the entire school, ... I had a couple of teachers help me with it, and it ended up pushing me to do something I probably wouldn't have otherwise done. Once that happened, it didn't bother me to speak in public.

I'm neutral in this race but I'm for freedom of speech, which means people should be able to assemble and speak without being shouted down.

The Communications Decency Act lacks the precision that the First Amendment requires when a statute regulates the content of speech. In order to deny minors access to potentially harmful speech, the CDA effectively suppresses a large amount of speech that adults have a constitutional right to receive and to address to one another.... In evaluating the free speech rights of adults, we have made it perfectly clear that sexual expression which is indecent but not obscene is protected by the First Amendment. Where obscenity is not involved, we have consistently held that the fact that protected speech may be offensive to some does not justify its suppression.

When Coretta Scott King invited me to come to Atlanta and give a speech and sing at a tribute to her last year, I decided to write a song for her and sing it directly to her. I was studying her words and history, and I wrote 'The Courage in Your Eyes.' I look at those pictures of her standing with Dr. King -- she was a rock.

The dissenting opinion has continued since 1792 as a great American tradition. It is as true to the character of our democracy as of speech itself.