Speech Quotes - page 2

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. (Thomas Carlyle)
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. View quote
Emil Cioran
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy. View quote
Emo Philips
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. View quote
Sarojini Naidu
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Speech is the mirror of the soul as a man speaks, so is he. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. (Harold Pinter)
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. View quote
Brad Thor
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. View quote
Jean Kerr
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. View quote
Kirk Douglas
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose. View quote
George Eliot
Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. View quote
Edward Snowden
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. View quote
William O. Douglas
In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought. View quote
Tiberius
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. (Susan Sontag)
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. View quote
Thornton Wilder
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. View quote
Emil Cioran