Quotes
Quotes about Speech
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.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression 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.
His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, Of rhetoric, which the learn'd call "rigmarole."
The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
