Speech Quotes
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True silence is the speech of lovers.
Catherine Doherty
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.
George III
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There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.
Jonathan Swift
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You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.
Hillary Clinton
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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Muriel Spark
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I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.
Mona Eltahawy
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Truthful speech provides, in the sphere of interpersonal communication, a parallel to wisdom in the sphere of private understanding.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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“More speech can be the best way to reach out to individuals, changing what they think and not merely what they do.”
Nadine Strossen
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This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
Gautama Buddha
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Have a relentless commitment to consistency of message. It might be the 15th time you’ve given the speech, but some people may never have heard it. Or, some people may have heard it four times but it’s the first time they’ve internalized it.
David M. Cote
