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Speech Quotes (957 Quotes)
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.
The Federal Open Market Committee does not appear from any of its official statements or from the speeches and testimony of its members, to be concerned about excessively strong labor markets or the prospect of wage inflation,
As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.
We agree that we don't want to deny anyone their right to free speech.
Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbors, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style and make a speech. Ben Jonson and he did gather humors of men daily wherever they came.
Through the perfect karma of good deeds, one meets the Perfect Guru, whose speech is perfect.
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
All freedoms, including the freedom of speech, come with responsibility. ... Having the right to cause offense does not make it right to do so.
It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.
Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
George's vast experience in the development and application of speech recognition technologies will be invaluable as INFONXX continues to implement customer-focused solutions for voice services and telecommunications carriers. We are glad he's on our team.
On reforms, the decision has been taken and broad outlines drawn but they now need to be activated ... the speech should be comprehensive and positive on domestic issues,
Three things matter in a speech who says it, how he says it, and what he says, and of the three, the last matters least.
He was giving a speech as if the nation were disheartened and worried and had lost its spirit, but that's not what people were thinking. They were thinking, why did the government screw up
The most precious things in speech are pauses.
It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite points of view. How we shall experience it depends upon the way we shall come up against it God does not change it is man's moral state that changes. The wrath of God is a figure of speech to denote God's unchanging opposition to sin it is His righteous love operating to destroy evil. It is not evil that will have the last word, but good not sorrow, but joy not hate, but love.
The president is going to be giving a series of speeches to update the American people on our strategy for victory in Iraq.
We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He didn't just try to blame someone else.
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
But it affected his right side. It affected his speech. He was diagnosed with short-term memory. He had seizures a lot.
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression gainst any neighbor--anywhere in the world.
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The greatest lesson those kids learned today was the importance of free speech.
The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.
The government was extremely productive, ... It was extremely productive not only in the House of Commons, legislatively, but in other aspects such as negotiations with provinces and agreements for equalizations and agreements with provinces for funding on health care, for cities, communities. So we're going to continue to work in the House and with provinces in order to continue to accomplish our commitments from the Speech from the Throne.
Advertisers, governments and organizations mount huge campaigns to show us what they want us to see, and we want to expose what they're hiding. There's lots of precedent for this sort of speech in print, in film (and) on the Web, but we think videogames are particularly good at exposing the underlying logics of these organizations--how they work and what's wrong with it.
Here were the tart herbs of plain American speech, the pasture, without the flowers of elocution... the clean rhythms... the irony and the homespun tenderness that, in a fine perforation, reached a sustained exaltation.
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the Communications Decency Act, interrupt that conversation.... As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion.... The government, therefore, implicitly asks this court to limit both the amount of speech on the Internet and the availability of that speech. This argument is profoundly repugnant to First Amendment principles.
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.
One would have hoped that he (Ahmadinejad) might have chosen a speech with more humility, a speech with a greater inclination to compromise. He was quite defiant ... That did not leave a lot of room for compromise, for diplomacy.
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
You have a real constitution that protects freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom of speech and freedom of conscience. These protections are among the most far-reaching of any in the region and probably around the world.
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
I didn't inform anyone (about the speech), I wanted to have it be a normal occasion and that was to go and give a statement about Kosovo, ... I specifically asked that there not be any special events or arrangements made upon my return. I thought that was the most appropriate way to do that.
The Bush administration has done a great job in reviewing the candidates, going through their opinions, backgrounds, and speeches,
The president can give all the speeches he wants, but nothing will change the fact that his Iraq policy is wrong. Two weeks ago, he told the American people that Iraqis would control their country by the end of the year. But last week, he told us our troops would be there until at least 2009.
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
We don't encourage it and the artists, in fact, have very little time at the podium to begin with for their acceptance speeches. But we don't edit for commentary, only for matters of indecency.
I agree with him. We are pretty average. But there's nothing wrong with that. When you look up and down the roster, we are pretty average. Hey, we are what we are. We can't apologize for who we are. It's just the way it is. If he wants to make that comment, he can go right ahead. He has freedom of speech.
Speech is often barren but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
The president picked a very inspiring spot to make this speech. The image is worth many words in terms of what Jackson Square and the cathedral mean to New Orleans and what New Orleans means to the nation. ... His three proposals are innovative and bold.
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
Speech is the small change of silence.