Speech Quotes
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From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.
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I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.
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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
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Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.
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The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.
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I like to remember what Michelle Obama said in her amazing speech at our Democratic National Convention: When they go low, we go high. And Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.
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Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
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We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.
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I'd love to do a real long speech again, eleven minutes dedicated to ME!
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Speak only the speech that neither torments self nor does harm to others. That speech is truly well spoken.
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The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.
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I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking.
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Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.
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In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
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Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.
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The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the weather record do not justify denying poor people affordable energy. And no set of facts, whatever they may be, can justify denying scientists - or anyone else, for that matter - the right to free speech.
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People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.
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I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.
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One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
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It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
