Speech Quotes
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I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.
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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.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.
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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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True silence is the speech of lovers.
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Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman.
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Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
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This president had a right to rejoice. But it was just a compassionate, wonderful speech
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Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country without freedom of speech. I prefer to die than live like a rat.
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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.
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I think that's the real shame: We spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in Flint, Michigan. It's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech.
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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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You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.
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All I care about is free speech and free expression; I want people to be able to be, do, and say anything.
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Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.
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People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech.
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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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Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
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I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former.
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In a victory speech, I always like to thank the opposition, because without their help and stupidity, I couldn’t have won.
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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.
