Speech Quotations

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to people at Google, but it's pretty clear to me why. It's because of speech recognition. It has nothing to do with 411 service: it has to do with getting a database of voices, so they don't have to license speech technology from Nuance or someone else.

Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.

I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I chose drama - to build a bit of self-confidence. I had a great teacher, and I won a few speech and drama competitions and just fell in love with it.

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

After graduating college in 2001 with a B. A. in Political Science and Speech Communications from Texas State University - San Marcos, I realized that my generation and those younger had been given no future and had been maliciously robbed of the knowledge of principles and methods necessary for building one.

Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks.

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

Language patterns solidify at 10, 11, 12, so I was able to learn English fairly easily, with no accent. I didn't do speech or vocal work to get rid of the German accent; I was just lucky.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.

The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.

Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.

Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

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.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.

Matangi's mantra is aim, which is MIA backwards. She fights for freedom of speech and stands for truth, and lives in the ghetto because her dad was the first person in Hindu mythology who came from the 'hood, but had gained enlightenment through not being a Brahmin.

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

The DISCLOSE Act is a testament to the wisdom of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United. The First Amendment sought to place political speech beyond the government's control, and we can be glad that it did.

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.