Speech Quotes - page 6

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps. (Ambrose Bierce)
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind. View quote
Seneca
I love freedom of speech. View quote
George W. Bush
Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even when technology gives us new ways to exercise those rights. Individual liberty has never weakened us; freedom of speech, enhanced by the Net, will only make us stronger. View quote
Mike Godwin
The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech. View quote
Mike Godwin
In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net. View quote
Mike Godwin
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. View quote
William Penn
I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out. (Roger Ebert)
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. View quote
Xenocrates
No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech. View quote
Tom Wolfe
What is the short meaning of the long speech? View quote
Friedrich Schiller
The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart. View quote
Willa Cather
I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our countryenergy and malaise. View quote
Jimmy Carter
When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. View quote
Alan K. Simpson
The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control. View quote
Ann Coulter
Democrats cannot conceive of "hate speech" towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it. View quote
Ann Coulter
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. - Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow. (Matthew Arnold)
There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. View quote
J. L. Austin
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
True silence is really endless speech. View quote
Ramana Maharshi
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence. View quote
Ramana Maharshi