Speech Quotes

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.

I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

A great speech is literature.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.