Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Wales

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

Kenneth Grahame

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

Narendra Modi

I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption.

Louis D. Brandeis

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

Lord Byron

There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment.

Northrop Frye

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]

Ellen Goodman

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

Epictetus

Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.

Henry Ward Beecher

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

John Hagee

What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?

This is being billed as a seminal speech. I think this will be a big thing.

They have a heckler's veto over speech and content.

Henry David Thoreau

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Fidel Castro

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

Jacques Derrida

But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible.

Isaac Asimov

Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.

Jerry Seinfeld

I am speechless: I have no speech

Gareth Gates

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

Fulton J. Sheen

We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

Frank Muir

The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

Frances Wright

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

George III

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

George W. Bush

Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.

George Orwell

Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.

George Edward Woodberry

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Francis Bacon

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Francis Bacon

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.