Speech Quotes
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It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated
William Somerset Maugham
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
Robert G. Menzies
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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.
Louis D. Brandeis
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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.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
Willie Goolsby
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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.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
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Speak when you are angry - and you`ll make the best speech you`ll ever regret.
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
Subject: Action Quotes :: Excellence QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce
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Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Buddha
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Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you`ll ever regret.
Brock Blassingame
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
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A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends
Arabian Proverb
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
Subject: Music QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
Harry A. Blackmun
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Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can`t find any clean socks
Jean Kerr
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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject: Speech QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject: Speech QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
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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 of them.
Mark Twain
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I don`t know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn`t. It`s like the way free speech doesn`t apply at work. You can`t just walk into your boss` office and say `you`re a fuckface and I`m gonna go back to w...
Jon Stewart
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Oh my God, you guys, I seriously do not have a speech prepared whatsoever. I`m shaking right now.
Christina Aguilera
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I have 30 seconds to tell you I have been waiting 60 years to get on this stage. -- his 1995 Emmy acceptance speech
Ray Walston
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It`s a shame Paul can`t be here because he was the one who had the speech in his pocket. (At his induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame).
George Harrison
