Speech Quotes

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.

The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. Mitt needs to get good real fast: A real speech, real plan, real responses, and real fire in the belly.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

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

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.

I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.