Speech Quotations | Page 9

He has laid out a long-term plan for the economy and he's trying to get everybody on board. The speech was to rally people to his plan of making Singapore a world-class city with a world-class service center.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour.

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

If a student is identifying an individual, or making a statement that threatens violence, that's a different kind of speech than something we might consider vulgar or offensive. There's no bright line. It's more of a continuum.

I don't think you can limit these school speech cases any more to the physical domains of the public school property, because in many cases it's quite possible to speak as if you were there from another location.

I went to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania like my dad did. I even gave the graduation speech at Wharton, which is what my dad did. I wrote the speech.

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.