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 ~
The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
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 ~
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
~By Harold Brodkey ~
In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.
~By Tom Hooper ~
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 ~
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
~By William Feather ~
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
~By James Earl Jones ~
Speech is the mirror of the soul.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
~By Kenneth Rexroth ~
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 ~
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
~By Jef I. Richards ~
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 ~
Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
~By Richard Masur ~
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 ~
In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.
~By Nong Duc Manh ~
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
~By Eminem ~
Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
~By Georgia O'Keeffe ~
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
~By Samuel Alito ~
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
~By George Savile ~
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
~By Daniel Webster ~
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 ~
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
~By J. L. Austin ~
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 ~
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 ~
Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech.
~By Loretta Swit ~
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 ~
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
~By Ruth Gordon ~
In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.
~By Jean-Marie Le Pen ~
There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.
~By Cliff Stearns ~
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 ~
We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.
~By Tom Scholz ~
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
~By Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ~
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
~By Roland Barthes ~
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
~By Peter Drucker ~
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 must stand for free speech in the streets.
~By Mary Harris Jones ~
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
~By Richard Chenevix Trench ~
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
~By Alan K. Simpson ~
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
~By Hugo Black ~
I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.
~By Ernest Istook ~
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 ~
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
~By Barbara Ehrenreich ~
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 ~
Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
~By Debbie Harry ~
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
~By William Safire ~
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
~By Jimmy Durante ~
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
~By Adrian Cronauer ~
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.
~By Jane Elliott ~
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 ~
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.
~By Leo Burnett ~
I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.
~By Colleen McCullough ~
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
~By George Orwell ~
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 ~
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.
~By Robert Teeter ~
Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
~By Peggy Noonan ~
A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.
~By Shane Leslie ~
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 ~
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
~By Mark Lloyd ~
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
~By William Whipple ~
In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
~By Beck ~
You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
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 ~
We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
~By Luke Scott ~
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
~By Alan Bullock ~
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
~By Felix Mendelssohn ~
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.
~By Judge Dalzell ~
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
~By Voltaire ~
In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.
~By Jef I. Richards ~
There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.
~By Edward Everett ~
Speech is the mirror of action.
~By Solon ~
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
~By Plutarch ~
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
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 ~
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 ~
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
~By Harold Pinter ~
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 ~
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
~By Dogen ~
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
~By Adam Smith ~
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
~By Clifton Paul Fadiman ~
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
~By John McGahern ~
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
~By Buddha ~
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