Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
~By James L. Buckley ~
Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.
~By Muriel Humphrey ~
All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.
~By Steven Hatfill ~
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
~By Confucius ~
Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.
~By Marjory Stoneman Douglas ~
Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
~By Jean Philippe Rameau ~
Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
~By Richard Masur ~
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?
~By Federico Fellini ~
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.
~By Ann Coulter ~
I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
~By Dave Reichert ~
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.
~By John Colville ~
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
~By Dogen ~
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
~By John Millington Synge ~
One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
~By Ira Glass ~
When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.
~By Barbara Amiel ~
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
~By Neal Boortz ~
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
~By Keith Henson ~
Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'
~By Tom Hooper ~
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.
~By Julie Harris ~
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
~By Walt Whitman ~
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
~By Chanakya ~
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did after his honorable discharge from the National Guard? Did he make speeches alongside Jane Fonda denouncing America's racist war in Vietnam?
~By Jeff Gannon ~
Speech is civilization itself.
~By Thomas Mann ~
It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
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.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
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.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.
~By Tom Scholz ~
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
~By Richard Chenevix Trench ~
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
~By Jimmy Wales ~
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.
~By Al Michaels ~
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
~By Roman Jakobson ~
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
~By George Washington ~
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
~By Charles Bradlaugh ~
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
~By G. B. Trudeau ~
One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.
~By Jerry Moran ~
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
~By bell hooks ~
The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.
~By Frances Rodman ~
So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
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.
~By Adam Sandler ~
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
~By Alan Bullock ~
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
~By Harold Pinter ~
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
~By Alice Hamilton ~
Literature is the immortality of speech.
~By August Wilhelm von Schlegel ~
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
~By Hesiod ~
No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
~By Ira Hayes ~
Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
~By Frank Serpico ~
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
~By Ferdinand de Saussure ~
The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.
~By Kenneth Branagh ~
Speech happens to not be his language.
~By Madame de Stael ~
In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.
~By James L. Buckley ~
Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.
~By Peter Stuyvesant ~
One camp accepts the Court's limits on contributions but urges the reinstatement of spending caps - even if this requires a constitutional amendment subjecting political speech, if not pornography, to government regulation.
~By James L. Buckley ~
You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.
~By Dixie Carter ~
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite.
~By Michael Caine ~
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.
~By Roger Ebert ~
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
~By Sophocles ~
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
~By Harry A. Blackmun ~
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech.
~By Ron Davies ~
From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.
~By Patrick Campbell ~
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
~By Pierre Trudeau ~
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
~By George Orwell ~
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.
~By Larry Craig ~
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
~By Ovid ~
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.
~By Dick Durbin ~
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.
~By Dick Gephardt ~
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
~By Herodotus ~
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
~By Anne McCaffrey ~
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
~By Nora Ephron ~
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.
~By Jef I. Richards ~
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
~By Stockwell Day ~
Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.
~By Judge Dalzell ~
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.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.
~By Julian Assange ~
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.
~By Bram Cohen ~
In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.
~By Jean-Marie Le Pen ~
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
~By Sophocles ~
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
~By Joichi Ito ~
Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.
~By Dom DeLuise ~
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
~By Martin Buber ~
Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.
~By Johann Most ~
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
~By Will Rogers ~
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