Quotes
Quotes about Speech
When it comes to facing up to serious problems, each candidate will pledge to appoint a committee. And what is a committee? ;A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. But it all sounds great in a campaign speech.
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -Adam Michnik.
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
A certain man has called us, "of all peoples the wisest in action," but he added, "the stupidest in speech."
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.
Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.
Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for which he listened.
Speech is silver; silence is golden.
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech. [Lat., Sed tamen difficile dictu est, quantopere conciliat animos hominum comitas affabilitasque sermonis.]
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.
Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
The most precious things in speech are pauses.
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. -Robert C. Murphy.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Literature is the immortality of speech.
