Speech Quotes
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Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.
Vladimir Lenin
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Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.
Geert Wilders
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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
Sun Ra
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To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
Herbert Spencer
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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
George Eliot
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Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover.
Martin Luther
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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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The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.
Charles Dickens
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I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.
Nicholas Brendon
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I do think we need to allow for there to be room for subversive and ironic speech. We need to be able to put out plays in which we make fun of ourselves or in which we interrogate the words that injure us. And maybe give them another meaning.
Judith Butler
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
Benjamin Carson
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Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
George Bernard Shaw
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Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.
Simon Sinek
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This president had a right to rejoice. But it was just a compassionate, wonderful speech
Chris Shays
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
John Milton
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Freedom of speech means not only freedom for the views with which you agree but also freedom for the views which you hate and deplore.
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
Cato the Younger
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I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former.
Ben Lerner
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The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
Jules Verne
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This is a speech we've all heard before. From the con artists who aren't like the burglars, who aren't like the armed robbers, who only ever broke a bone if the victim had it coming and the murderers who made 'one mistake' and are forced to pay for it for the rest of their lives. They want to know what you're doing about the real criminals, the rapists and the paedophiles. Who want to know why you're wasting resources on them when we should be tackling female genital mutilation or political corruption.
Ben Aaronovitch
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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
Dante Alighieri
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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.
Stephen Sondheim
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It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
Washington Gladden
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
Hermann Hesse