Speech happens to not be his language.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.
~By Ed Rendell ~
When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
~By Richard Darman ~
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
~By John Wesley Powell ~
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
~By Ann Coulter ~
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 ~
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 ~
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
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 ~
As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.
~By James L. Buckley ~
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.
~By Eric Cantor ~
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 ~
I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
~By Mary Lou Retton ~
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
~By Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By William Penn ~
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
~By Zhuang Zi ~
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 ~
The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
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 ~
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
~By Aristotle ~
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!
~By Pat Sajak ~
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
~By James Laughlin ~
Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.
~By Delta Burke ~
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 ~
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
~By Allan Bloom ~
The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.
~By Geoffrey Rush ~
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.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
~By Adrian Cronauer ~
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
~By Brendan Francis ~
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.
~By Tom Hooper ~
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
~By Dogen ~
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
~By A. J. P. Taylor ~
The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.
~By Pete Wilson ~
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
~By Norman O. Brown ~
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 ~
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 ~
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
~By Auberon Waugh ~
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 ~
You must stand for free speech in the streets.
~By Mary Harris Jones ~
What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'
~By Tom Hooper ~
But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.
~By John McCain ~
The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
~By Pat Oliphant ~
I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
~By Brian Eno ~
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.
~By Joe Baca ~
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.
~By Sarojini Naidu ~
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
Speech is the mirror of action.
~By Solon ~
We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
~By Boyle Roche ~
We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses.
~By Mario Cuomo ~
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.
~By George Pataki ~
When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.
~By Susan Estrich ~
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 ~
I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.
~By Harry Dean Stanton ~
There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.
~By Cliff Stearns ~
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 ~
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
~By Colin Powell ~
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
~By Dan Quayle ~
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 ~
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
~By Confucius ~
We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.
~By Fred Frith ~
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
~By Clifton Paul Fadiman ~
Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?
~By Bo Bennett ~
The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
~By Ruth Gordon ~
I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.
~By Herschel Walker ~
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
~By Deborah Bull ~
Silence is safer than speech.
~By Epictetus ~
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 ~
In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.
~By Jef I. Richards ~
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 ~
Speech is the mirror of the soul.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
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 ~
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
~By Joanna Lumley ~
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 ~
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
~By Edith Wharton ~
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
~By Otto von Bismarck ~
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 ~
While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.
~By Johann Most ~
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.
~By Karen Morley ~
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
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